Word: rotundity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yesterday's meeting a large number of people appeared in favor of the change, none in opposition. Mr. R. C. Grovestein, appearing in behalf of the Harvard Square Business Men's Association favored changing the size of the rotund, but he wanted a structure different from Mr. Blanchard's in that it called for eliminating one of the two broad stairways...
...Ophelia-the Ophelia whom the Hamlet of John Barrymore demented. Her present performance gives pledge of a considerable ability in light opera if presented without so many physical restrictions. Her colleagues were moderately well equipped for other assignments. Particularly pleasant was Edgar Stehli's interpretation of the rotund Bunthorne...
Manhattanites recalled a time when, for many moons, the Messrs. Shubert similarly banned the rotund, genial presence of Critic Alexander Woollcott* in any of their Broadway pleasure palaces; recalled ruses, disguises, trickery resorted to by the genial Woollcott to deceive the Messrs. Shubert and slip in unperceived; recalled the waning of that feud, a reconciliation and Critic Woollcott's presence again regularly gracing an aisle seat whenever the Messrs. Shubert had something new wherewith to beguile the public in its idle hours...
...Rotund and rollicking, dour and dignified, thin and thoughtful, the mature members of the U. S. Seniors' Golf Association foregathered at Rye, N. Y., for their annual fest. Not one was there but had spanned 55 years; some had seen 65, some 70, some 75, some 80. When the last score had been totted up in the national senior championship, Claude M. Hart of Boston and Henry S. Redfield of Hartford were found to -be tied at 161 for the 36 holes. They agreed to meet later and have...
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...