Word: rotundities
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...golden age" which all operagoers ever 50 recall with sighs, the famous Rodolfos of Puccini's La Boheme (Bonci, Caruso, Gigli) had powerful voices and rotund figures. Today's cinema-bred audiences demand smaller bellies, and get, as a rule, weaker diaphragms. Old-time opera fans do not mind the drop in avoirdupois, but they sniff contemptuously at the comparatively microphonic murmuring that goes with...
Vincent Lopez, solemn, rotund dance-band maestro, has always been the soul of patriotism. For years he began or ended each night-club dance program with The Star-Spangled Banner, inviting his starched & spangled customers to clear their throats and sing. Nobody knew the words, and only a few sang; it usually sounded terrible. Finally, sensitive night-club owners asked him not to play it any more...
...sculpture, which Carl Milles has made world-famed, and for the beautiful work in glass, silver and furniture fostered by the Swedish Association of Arts & Crafts under renowned Dr. Gregor Paulsson and his successor, Dr. Ake Stavenow. Last spring a committee, including the Worcester Museum's rotund Director Francis Henry Taylor and Russell A. Plimpton, director of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, decided to pass up sculpture, try to assemble for U. S. showings a selection of old, not new, Swedish handicrafts. Bright, tactful Mr. Plimpton spent the summer in Sweden prying from Swedish museums objects that...
...scheduled to meet Poland's hefty Jadwiga ("Jaja") Jedrzejowska in the final, was instead put out in the quarter-finals by Dorothy May Bundy. Chubby Miss Bundy, who resembles her famed tennis-playing mother May Sutton (U. S. champion 1904, and Wimbledon champion 1905, 1907), more than her rotund and equally famed, tennis-playing father Tom (U. S. doubles champion with Maurice Mclaughlin in 1912, 1913, 1914), was promptly put out (6-2, 6-3) in the semi-finals by Chile's Anita Lizana, the nimble daughter of a Santiago professional. Meantime Jadwiga Jedrzejowska eliminated Helen Jacobs, whom...
...before he resigned as Chief of the U. S. Biological Survey, had managed to scratch up $8,500,000. From o.ther sources a total of $21,000,000 was finally obtained. In Denver, at the annual convention of the Western Association of State Game & Fish Commissioners, Ira Noel Gabrielson, rotund present chief of the Survey, hefted himself to his feet to explain what had happened since his bureau took the money, largely drawn from relief and work-making budgets, and really moved into action...