Word: plumpness
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...sumptuous color for which the great Venetian is famed, Education of Cupid shows a plump, blonde Venus handing a sheaf of arrows to a Cupid with blue-tipped wings, while a half-nude handmaiden looks on admiringly and two muscular brown satyrs hoist high in the air baskets of doves and fruit...
Signals for Curtains Up! sounded last week almost simultaneously in San Francisco and Chicago for another opera season. San Francisco's curtain-raiser was a smoothly-run performance of Halevy's La Juive, in which Tenor Giovanni Martinelli surpassed himself as the bearded old Jew while that plump, dependable songstress, Elisabeth Rethberg, took the part of the heroine who is finally plopped into a caldron, boiled in oil. In Chicago, Soprano Rosa Raisa was condemned to sizzle at the stake in Respighi's La Fiamma, proved her popularity by getting loud applause when neither her singing...
...Halloween high jinks floated up one evening last week to the roof of Hollywood's Knickerbocker Hotel. Searchlights on top of nearby cinema houses fingered the rosy sky over Hollywood Boulevard. On the hotel roof, ignoring a milling throng of spiritualists, magicians, newshawks, cameramen and gawpers, a plump, white-haired woman walked down a length of red plush carpet on the arm of a bearded man. Beatrice Wilhelmina Rahner Houdini and her business manager, Magician Edward Saint, seated themselves on thronelike chairs before a red-draped table. On the table lay a silver bell, a trumpet, a pair...
...opening of the polls, then "broken" in the Eagle and simultaneously sent to the 1,350 members of the Associated Press. Score: Landon, 32; Roosevelt, 12; Aiken, 1; not voting for President, 3. Featured voter: Miss Phoebe Jordan who announced that she was switching from the GOP to plump for Roosevelt...
...Susan, a portrait study of a plump young blonde by Eugene Speicher...