Word: rotund
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hospitable Brazilians rushed to completion two triumphal arches for their Argentine guest, a big arch 95 ft. high on which colored lights played all night and a cosy little arch. Short, rotund President Getulio Dornellas Vargas of Brazil has recovered from the motor accident in which he broke both legs last spring (TIME, May 8); he was up in the Graf Zeppelin last week circling Northern Brazil, flew back to Rio just in time to send out several battleships and 60 Brazilian naval planes to greet President Justo in whose further honor Brazil printed commemorative postage stamps...
...possibility had disappeared. Miss Britain III, almost a mile behind, was chugging along smoothly but a little pathetically, at 66 m.p.h. to Miss America's easy 88. Wood throttled his boat down to 85 for the next lap, 82 for the third, a bare 80 for the fourth. Rotund, red-haired Hubert Scott-Paine and his mechanic. Gordon Thomas, crouching in Miss Britain's small streamlined cowl, got their motors warmer as the race went on, reached a maximum of almost 81 m.p.h. on the third lap. Miss America X was about two miles ahead at the finish...
...HATTER MYSTERY - John Dickson Carr-Harper ($2). London's jolly hat stealer makes a grave error, brings scandal and murder to a proud family. Reluctantly, rotund Dr. Fell finds the guilty member...
Subscriber Martin notwithstanding, the State Department denies that short, rotund Minister Southard entered Addis Ababa on an ass, states that he entered in a motor car. The Emperor still bestrides an ass when reviewing troops, tendered an ass to Minister Southard who declined the ceremonial beast with thanks...
...English derby at Epsom Downs was founded by the racing Earls of Derby 153 years ago to amuse a boisterous party of dinner guests. Only twice in all those years did their house win it. The twelfth earl won in 1787. Roseate, rotund Edward George Villiers Stanley, the present Lord Derby, won it in 1924 with Sanso-vino, thereby gratifying one of his two life wishes.* Last week he surprised himself by winning it again, this time with Hyperion...