Word: rotund
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...Follies of 1939 (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). With no individual star to rival Sonja Henie, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Producer Harry Rapf, eager to capitalize on the vogue for skating spectacles launched by Twentieth Century-Fox's rotund little ex-Olympic skater, was forced to fall back on the reliable formula of the show within a show. Approximately half the footage of Ice Follies is devoted to the spinnings and whirlings of a troupe of professional skaters, photographed from all angles. The other half is devoted to a dull narrative in which James Stewart and Joan Crawford...
When the Cambridge City Council met Tuesday night to hear Councillor John J. Toomey attack Harvard and Radcliffe as a "half-far passenger, with a special privilege pass, on the omnibus of municipal progress," and when it ordered rotund Mayor John W. Lyons to appoint a committee of citizens to discuss taxes and "other pertinent issues" with University officials, it was reviving a question that has long been a monkey-wrench in Harvard-Cambridge relations...
...inquisitive student, as he rose to get out at the Square, peeped around the curtain, was surprised to see a rotund little conductor shaking a pudgy finger in the face of Government Professor Fritz Morstein Marx...
...third floor go hundreds of enthusiastic students during the week from the schools of Medicine, Hygiene and Public Health. Three steps lead up to the lecturer's oaken platform, and a hand railing stands next to the steps. It was built for Founder Welch, who was so rotund that he could not see beyond his middle, had to use the railing for a guide when he came to the edge of the platform and descended the steps. No need for a hand rail has energetic Dr. Sigerist who often takes the steps in one leap. Students enjoy his lively...
...Safeguard of French Art is the creation of a rotund, twinkling Frenchman, the Due de Trévise, whose great grandfather, one of Napoleon's marshals, was killed by an infernal machine in 1835 while riding beside King Louis Philippe. In gratitude to the family, the King gave their name to a street, the Rue de Trévise near the Folies-Bergère. When the Folies first opened it was gaily called the Folies-Trévise, a name which the furious family succeeded in getting changed. The present Duke likes to talk about this regretfully...