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...Wynn is the featured jester: he who is plump and lisping, who wears horn glasses and exhibits inventions. This year he has fashioned a nightdress guaranteed not to become uncomfortably entwined about the body ? it is truncated under the arms. As a Coney Island shop-owner who falls asleep and dreams of Fairyland, he wanders into enchanted woods. "I love the woods," he continually explains. There he is troubled by large and grotesque faces, by a contortionistic frog. He tells a story of a carrier pigeon whose wings were injured but who still managed to reach his destination...
...Author. Emil Ludwig, indefatigable reporter of late great lives, was born in Breslau, Germany, in 1881, of Jewish parents. His father was a famed ophthalmologist. Stocky, long-haired; smooth, long, plump of face, bland of smile, his dark eyes have a Rudy Vallee droop. In law, then business, till he was 25, he took up journalism in 1914. Say his detractors: he is still at it. Says he: "I detest the historical novel. It perverts both history and fiction. My ideal is a portrait of unimpeachable documentary veracity, which at the same time is suggestive of a story." Author Ludwig...
...edition of Godey's Lady's Book was a thing to be read, reread, laughed at, cried over. Plump, benign Louis A. Godey chatted monthly with his "fair readers," giving careful counsel and advice. When a correspondent asked the Publisher in Philadelphia on which side of a lady a gentleman should sit, Mr Godey advised the left, "for is it not closer to a lady's heart...
Last week at Rome, in the Via Monte Zebio, a plump little woman in rusty black clothes stood up to receive the approval of Fascist officialdom, the applause of learned contemporaries, the acclaim of 100 disciples from 21 nations. Dottoressa Maria Montessori had come home, after 16 years, to reinaugurate her Theoretical & Practical Training Course on Child Education, under the auspices of the Italian Government. An honorary member of the Fascist party since 1926, she had been recalled by Il Duce himself, elected by the Ministry of Education to conduct her own new experimental school -the Opera Montessori-after...
...escaped the fury of the French Revolution only because he was a citizen of out-of-the-way Grenoble. There Henri was born in 1783, and naturally grew up as a republican, to pique his father. He was difficult, even as a child. When told to kiss the plump cheek of a grown-up female relative, he bit it. His mother's death, when he was 5, plunged him into despair and atheism. His only childhood friend was his grandfather's valet, who was killed by falling from a mulberry tree. At school Henri won a prize...