Word: rotund
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Liquor merchants reached into the dark recesses of hidden cellars, hoping that continued sub-freezing temperatures would bring added customers for their liquid warmth. One rotund merchant, caught reaching for a case of Haig and Haig, beamed happily. "They always seem to want good stuff this weekend...
...Princeton game are strangely absent, and the undergraduate spirit seems broken after the worst Yale football season since 1941. There are some who feel that Herman Hickman has failed with excellent material, and they feel certain that a loss to the Crimson would put strong alumni pressure on the rotund coach, now in the second year of a ten year contract...
Herman Hickman must have had a perfectly miserable afternoon at the Stadium Saturday. Everything the rotund Yale coach looked at spelled pain for the Elis...
After a few hours at one of these taverns, a sailor might feel the need to be tattoed. He won't have to go far, since there are five late-working jab artists within easy walking distance. The best of these, a rotund gentleman named Frank W. Liberty, claims to have had the honor of applying pigment to the undergraduate arm of one of the Roosevelt boys; he doesn't know which...
Just before midnight, two policemen walked into Teheran's Park Hotel last week looking for Sefton Delmer, crack foreign correspondent for the London Daily Express. They were not sure of his looks, though to other correspondents in Iran Delmer's rotund, 250-lb figure and flamboyant air were as well known as stories about his big expense accounts. When Delmer lumbered in from filing a dispatch on the oil crisis, one policeman asked: "Are you Mr. Sefton?" Snapped Delmer: "No, and if you have any business with me, you'd better make sure...