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Velazquez (1599-1660) because, long ago, he conceived that the plump oval face of a little Spanish prince with beady eyes would almost achieve piquancy if tilted beneath a hat like a black velvet sofa pillow-that the princeling's rotund body, swathed in the ribbon-counter elegance of his period, would appear almost slight if mounted upon a very fat pony-that the obese quadruped would appear speedy as a blooded stallion if he were poised on his hind-legs against a sky of troubled fire and blown grey cloud. (The result of Velazquez's cogitation, Prince...
...very painful to me to hear that he had fallen a victim to synthetic sin." The Courtroom. Lawyers Colby of Manhattan and Godsey of Dayton having withdrawn from the case (the latter cowering before public opinion), there sat with Lawyer Darrow and Teacher Scopes in the courtroom only plump, foppish Lawyer Malone of Manhattan and Judge Neal of Knoxville, Tenn. Fumbling his soiled lavender galluses, slowly masticating a quid of tobacco, Darrow squinted across at Lawyer Bryan, rather voluptuous in a black mohair suit, surrounded by assistant counsel...
...calm, bearded gentleman who sat in the State Department, as well as his successor, the lean worried-looking little man; the cadaverous, fatigued-looking man who sits in the Treasury Department; the plump little man who guides the Department of Commerce-they have from time to time reached out with a long stick and gently prodded Europe. The prodding was, on the whole, very gentle, for they were gentlemen and the nations they were prodding had been our late allies. They did not wish us to appear dunners...
Another of the speakers had occasion to refer to the Netherlands. She was Mrs. Helena Normanton (Mrs. Gavin Clark), first married woman to be admitted to the English Bar under her own name, a woman who, in addition to prefixing "Mrs." to her maiden name, is "plump and very pretty, with a genuine blond complexion that would make even a show girl respect nature." Said she to her fellow diners...
...Arms. Margaret Lawrence is an amazingly attractive person, possibly a trine plump to be playing a nervous bride but, nevertheless, most agreeable. For her sake, her extensive clientele will enjoy In His Arms. For the rest, it will be simply a comedy that edges comfortably above the average...