Word: plumpness
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When in 1909 plump little Marcella Sembrich sang her farewell to opera, Manhattan's Metropolitan built her a throne on the stage, fairly swamped her with flowers, gifts, eulogies. Operagoers that bleak February night cheered themselves croupy while tears ran down many a wrinkled old cheek. But why was this great singer retiring at the peak of her career? "Because I like the sun best when it is high." Last week in Manhattan Death came to Marcella Sembrich who, save for Schumann Heink and Calvé, was the last survivor of an age which produced Patti, Lilli Lehmann, Melba...
...Marshall innovations were trivial. He persuaded fashionable young matrons of the capital to work for the Times. Betsy Caswell, widow of the Shenandoah's Commander Lansdowne, did the cooking page; beauteous Mrs. Grace Hendrick Eustis reported politics; plump Nina Carter Tabb covered the hunts of the swank Middleburg and Warrentown set. Hugely successful, their columns helped budge the Times' circulation up to 106,800, only 6,300 less than the venerable Washington Star...
...simple priest whose years-36-made him the world's youngest archbishop. The priest was Rev. James Charles McGuigan (pronounced Mick-gwiggan). At 40, Archbishop McGuigan is still younger than the 22 U. S. archbishops, the 13 Canadian archbishops. Last week Pius XI once more jumped this plump-faced, pince-nezzed prelate over innumerable heads, appointed him to the long-vacant archdiocese of Toronto, second largest (165,000 Catholics) English-speaking see in Canada...
...most conservative theological seminary, at Princeton. Thereupon they abandoned Princeton, founded a seminary of their own which they called Westminster, after the great Confession of their faith. When the smoke of theological battle lifted and public interest had shifted to other quarters, there emerged a new Fundamentalist leader. Plump-cheeked Dr. John Gresham Machen, born 52 years ago in Baltimore, was not another Bryan but he was a peppery, name-calling fighter. Dr. Machen caused the late Dr. Henry Van Dyke to relinquish his pew in Princeton's First Presbyterian Church because, said he, Dr. Machen preached "a dismal...
Between hotel rooms and War Department shuttled the General's plump aide, Capt. Thomas J. Davis, carrying a bulky dispatch case. Seven times in four hours he puffed back & forth. With each round trip one of General MacArthur's seven charges was wiped from the complaint. Then final terms were secretly signed...