Word: rotundity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years ago a meagre, slight dress maker, she crouched with pins in her mouth at the feet of a fat woman. The client was standing on a low fitting-stool, and from her rotund torso hung the drapes of a negligee that stubbornly would not seem stylish. Dressmaker Lane Bryant sat back on her heels and studied the paunchiness; she stood up and walked meditatively around it. She saw where she could alter the hang, and, stooping over, with swift fingers pinned folds here, there. The negligee fit smartly. Lane Bryant slipped it off her customer; basted it; stitched...
...sure enough, dashing through the sleepy streets, Engine No. 9 snorted up to No. 2009 Massachusetts Avenue, a modest little French-style mansion of Indiana limestone, with festive lights. There, just as on another night last January (TIME, Jan. 16), stood a pink-cheeked, slightly rotund little man with a perky mustache and amusing eyes...
...that it has ever failed to give one one's money's worth, but this week the Metropolitan gives interest--huge interest--in that Cupid-like "Barnum of Bandland," the rotund Paul Whiteman. But it has long been our opinion that Paul not only possesses his share of avoirdupois but also a proportionate amount or that something known as "it." To say the least, he and his music fill the mammoth Met stage as it has never been filled before with beats and throbs and sobs of soulful syncopation. In fact, Paul, surrounded by a more admirable bevy of beauties...
Harvard men who visit a new restaurant in Fifty-seventh Street called the Granada Grill are falling on the neck, quite literally, of the rotund black doorman resplendent in new maroon uniform and gold-toothed smile. For it has turned out he is none other than Terry of beloved memory, for nineteen years clerk and general factotum of the Dean's office in Cambridge and famous for his memory of students' names and faces...
...Rotund and glossy Argentine Delegate Honorio Pueyrredon was first to potently outpop. His vastly rich and extensively land owning family enable him to flout whom he will with impunity. At the first session of the Assembly of the League of Nations, in Geneva, he arose and stalked out when Argentine interests seemed threatened. He stands high in the ranks of the strong, opposition, "Radical" party of Argentina. He has maintained himself as Ambassador at Washington by sheer prestige and almost in despite of Argentine President Marcelo de Alvear...