Word: girths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bald, white-mustached and be- spectacled man, whose red lips and rotund girth belied his 74 years, bent feverishly over a manuscript in Harvard's Widener Library one day last week, writing for all he was worth. Reluctantly he went home that evening, planning what he would do on the morrow. That night he suffered a cerebral hemorrhage. Next afternoon he was dead...
...specially quotable or laugh-getting phrase in the candidate's speeches should be noted for reiteration Newspapers snatch at good little bits for front-page "boxes." Any cartoonable physical characteristics or appurtenances should be emphasized-as were Roosevelt's grin and spectacles, Taft's girth, Dawes's pipe. Smith...
...foolishly taken a three-year lease on a house in an isolated oasis. He thinks his troubles are over when a beautiful American girl, an admirer of his books, writes and asks him to marry her; but when she arrives she is rather taken aback, first by his unexpected girth and then by his menage. The last scene shows a sick, world-weary Max, having run away for the last time, being caught up to heaven in a nightmare finale...