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...artist'' that he went back to Europe in a huff. Said he: "If the American people will express the wish to have me here again, I'll gladly return and sing with all my soul." For five years Sparrow Gigli warbled in Continental concerts, grew a paunch in Munich beer halls, dabbled in German cinemas. Then Hollywood finally called him again to the U. S. Last week, much fatter than in his Metropolitan heyday and resembling both New York's Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia and Chicago's Scarface Al Capone, he made...
...Alps. Officers whom he had taught at St. Anton got him the job of teaching skiing to officers in all the Alpine regiments. During the War, Hannes Schneider perfected his own technique in new directions. Favorite turn of Norwegian skiers was the dignified Telemark, executed standing upright, with the paunch extended, shoulders back. Hannes Schneider elaborated the racy Christiania-executed in a crouch with the shoulders forward, paunch tucked...
...beginning to show a paunch and double chin, Young Jim is quiet, uncommunicative, abrupt. He shoots ducks, golfs almost daily, bowls every Monday until midnight, likes to read political history. Devoted to his two daughters, aged 13 and 9, he is, like all Pendergasts, a devout Roman Catholic. He and his wife spend most of their evenings at home, invite friends in frequently for cards (bridge and pitch). Mrs. Pendergast devotes much time to hospital work...
...feet, he requires four men to stand him up again. Opponents find him formidable be cause he is too big to hold, too slippery to twist, too heavy to lift. Leviathan Levy's only trick is to knock down an adversary with a blow of his paunch, then lie down on top of him. Currently trying to impair his appearance further by growing a beard, Leviathan Levy hopes next month to "wrestle" Man Mountain Dean (TIME...
...these principal pegs on which Author Dos Passos hangs his narrative, scores of other characters appear, reappear and fade away. Eveline Hutchins, the Chicago Jazz-age girl, attains a Manhattan salon only to end her career with an overdose of sleeping powder. G. H. Barrow, labor-faker, gets a paunch and a fur overcoat by "settling" strikes. Ben Compton, a Brooklyn Jew turned radical and one of Mary French's lovers, finds his life ruined when he is read out of the Party for being a "disrupting influence." All of them - in politics, manufacturing, advertising, Wall Street, the cinema...