Word: plumpishly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Death came last week to Senator Lee Slater Overman of North Carolina (see p. 36). Almost from the graveside at Salisbury, Governor Gardner announced the appointment of Cameron ("Cam") Morrison, 61, of Charlotte to be the successor. When he was North Carolina's Governor (1921-24) red-faced, plumpish, tobacco-chewing (and spitting) Mr. Morrison received much credit, took more, for inaugurating the $150,000,000 program which gave his state the best hard-surfaced road system in the south. In the executive mansion at Raleigh his ten-year-old daughter by his first wife served as official hostess...
...though afraid that just dancing and crooning- at which blackamoors often excel whites- are not sufficient for an evening's entertainment. For this reason, the comedy of Hot Rhythm is often unfunny, the attempt at magnificence unimpressive. Best, most natural humor in the show is offered by plumpish, sleek Mae Barnes, who delights many a spectator with her slatternly, lazy dance. Most tuneful song: "Loving...
...Knox Sherrill, 39, was elected ninth bishop last week. Escorting him to a platform for formal notification was his predecessor once removed,* Dr. William Lawrence, 80 this month, who resigned the office and title of Bishop of Massachusetts in 1926 after 33 years service. Bishop-elect Sherrill is a plumpish married man. The realism of 18-months War service at Bordeaux, as chaplain of the base hospital on its outskirts, underlies a polish acquired at Hotchkiss School, Yale, the Episcopal Theological School at Cambridge. He is on Harvard's board of preachers. He has been serving the past seven...