Word: rotundities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although the Court has fallen still a little further behind, it has been a term of hard work for the Chief Justice. He deserved his vacation. But that vacation was not to be all that he anticipated. In June, that rotund figure which the inhabitants of Washington were accustomed to see striding smiling to the Capitol of a morning had customarily been seen in New Haven. The famous smile shone, rain or shine, upon the Yale-Harvard baseball game. This year...
...Taffari, Prince Regent of Ethiopia, who concluded his visit to France (TIME, May 26), rarely smiled, the French noticed. Everywhere he was as solemn as Solomon, his ancestor. Once the rotund ex-Shah* of Persia was pointed out to him, but still he did not laugh, he actually cut him dead. French officials showed him everything that would make an ordinary mortal laugh, but black Ras laughed not-not until he was taken to Fontainebleau, when he should have been both impressed and serious. The subject of Ras' amusement was carp-carp swimming peaceably in a pond...
...grandfather would have liked his memory associated with it. Allegedly this is a great disappointment to the Bolshecrats, who had intended to spend $500,000 for the erection of a Marx Monument in Red Square, Moscow. On dit in Paris that Manuel, onetime King of Portugal, and the rotund ex-Shah of Persia went to Zelli's famed Montmartre cabaret, drank champagne, talked to the pretty girls. Butted in a sheik-like youth, asked permission to sit down. The monarchs assented graciously, the three talked much and at the time of parting said Manuel: "I am the King...
Present at the race was the rotund ex-Shah of Persia...
After those four years, any comment on the performance of the Chauve-Souris seems quite superfluous. Better typewriters than ours have rattled off their choicest superlatives in praise of the rotund personality of Balieff and the magnificently foolish or beautiful performance of his company. The fragments which have made up the repertory of Balieff's Chauve-Souris are by now the common property of all America. The drollery of the Parade of the Wooden Soldiers; the exquisite, breathless beauty of the porcelain pantomines; the gorgeous foolishment of "The Sudden Death of a Horse; or the "Greatness of the Russian Soul...