Search Details

Word: rotundities (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Within the casket were what Howard Carter expected to find-four Canopic jars, rotund and high-shouldered. Each stood for one of the tutelary demons of the dead -dog-headed Hapt (Hepy*) who represented the north, man-headed Amset for the south, ape-headed Duamutef for the east, falcon-headed Kebhsenuf for the west. They had no power to wither the modern hands which gripped the covers of the jars and twisted gently. Removal was not difficult for each cover had a knob on it. Craftsmen had carved the knobs into careful and duplicate images of TutankhAmen's head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Last Relics | 2/13/1928 | See Source »

Speaking at London, last week, the rotund but potent 62-year-old Earl of Derby disparaged this idea before a physical-culturist audience, finally exclaiming: "I, ladies and gentlemen, have not touched my toes for 50 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Postulate Disproved | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

Eleven special trains rumbled into Washington. Out poured some 2,000 politicians from Middle America. From North Dakota came Governor Arthur Gustav Sorlie. From New Orleans came enormously rotund Mayor Arthur J. O'Keefe. Governor Len Small of Illinois was there and Senators James Enos Watson of Indiana and Pat Harrison of Mississippi. There were business boosters from St. Louis, Vicksburg, Natchez, Baton Rouge; rooster-boosters from Cairo, Keokuk, Dubuque and Quincy. There were a policemen's octet, a quartet of Pullman porters, an Italian band dressed as sailors. One and all wore huge bullseye badges inscribed "America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Flood Control | 11/21/1927 | See Source »

...McGeehanesque acepticism. As a hockey player, Mr. Lynch was one of Boston's best amateur puck-stoppers and this position naturally gave him a detached view of the game that was bound to make him a student of the ice sport. Though still an undergraduate, the rotund Hearst man is already the Boston American's hockey expert and as such he "does", besides his Harvard sports, all the professional hockey games in Boston. His prowess as a hockey referee makes him one of the most sought-after of ice officials so that, though still in the cub stage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Issues Confidential Guide to Press Box Personalities and Tactics | 11/19/1927 | See Source »

WITH THE ADVENT to these SHORES of none other than THE ROTUND and illustrious PAUL POIRET PERHAPS better known to THOSE OF the fairer SEX but nevertheless WELL ENOUGH known to THE LESS deadly of the SPECIES, plus the APPEARANCE in a supposedly RATIONAL sheet in the SOMEWHAT LESS rational MIDDLE WEST of a STATEMENT to the effect that HARVARD MEN are the worst DRESSED MEN on any college CAMPUS the floor for DEBATE and a heated. DISCUSSION of the general QUESTION of men's APPAREL is thrown wide OPEN...

Author: By J. H. S., | Title: THE CRIME | 11/9/1927 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | Next