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Married. William Wilkinson, 76, "Bishop of Wall Street," to Mrs. Pauline Travilla MacNab, 74; in Manhattan. Dr. Wilkinson's rotund figure is a familiar sight to noonday crowds in Manhattan's financial district, where he preaches open-air sermons from the curb...
...jumped out of the rear seat," drawled the rotund Senator, recounting the incident in his leisurely fashion, "and then I bumped into him. It's too bad there wasn't a motion-picture camera around. It would have furnished some good low comedy. He evidently didn't think I would drive into him. He turned around, sat down on the bumper, rather sprawled out and I carried him half way across the street. Then he jumped up and turned off the ignition...
...Alphabet, to be published in St. Nicholas. It was in the margins around this poem that the first Brownies capered and grimaced; after that the magazine rarely appeared without them. Remarkable creatures they were, about an inch high; their bodies were uncouth but agile ? spindle-shanked, with rotund small bellies; they had pendulous cheeks, tiny eyes and huge mouths, capable of infinite expression. They could wear any clothes with an odd look, but their noirmal garb was doublet and hose, worn with a tasseled cap peculiar to their order...
Remarkable creatures, uncouth but agile ? spindle-shanked, with rotund small bellies...
...rotund little Frenchman, perspiring, slovenly, excited as a baker chasing stolen buns, rushed, dithering and gesticulating about the prize ring in the Polo Grounds, Manhat- tan. In frothing, broken accents he screamed at the referee, judges and journalists, crowded about below him, that foul play was at hand. For proof, he pointed to a sagging figure who staggered weakly over the boards, doubled up with pain. He grabbed at the staggerer's blue silk shorts, tried to rip them off and expose dire injury. This demented man was null Descamps, Manager of Georges Carpentier, French light heavyweight, arguing...