Word: rotundly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...being put in regular service between Kansas City and Omaha. She was a notable visitor the opening day- but not the first. That honor went to one Martin Svendsen, 19, at 9 a. m. He had been waiting at the gates 24 hr. for it. First official visitor was rotund Flyer Roscoe Turner bringing greetings from the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce. William Randolph Hearst had inspected the plant, repaired, repainted and 90% new in exhibits, three days before (see p. 38). Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. of General Motors had marshaled 300 scientists, industrialists and economists for a grand neotechnic forum...
...House of Commons the chapel-like benches were so crowded that lanky Sir John Simon was forced to squat on the steps of the Speaker's dais. Rotund Tory Winston Churchill, fresh from his startling accusations against Lord Derby and Sir Samuel Hoare (see p. 16), was too late to find a seat on the Government side, and he was forced to cross the floor and perch on a few inches of cushion next to wild-eyed Laborite James Maxton whose hair is longer than Greta Garbo...
...High Crime and Misdemeanor that Tory Churchill charged last week was that, before this report was presented, Sir Samuel Hoare, Secretary of State for India, and the rotund Earl of Derby, member of the parliamentary committee on Indian reform, had invited the Manchester men to dinner at Lord Derby's London house, had filled them full of soft words, turtle soup and tawny port, had persuaded them to rewrite the report that they were about to submit...
MURDER IN THE CALAIS COACH-Agatha Christie-Dodd, Mead ($2). Basing the tale on America's great kidnapping, the author brings the archcriminal to his doom on a snowbound Jugoslavian express. Coincidentally the rotund, penetrating Poirot is abroad. Clues abound. Alibis are frequent and unassailable but nothing confounds the great Hercule who, after propounding alternative solutions to his jury of two, retires modestly...
...chief field representative and investigator is Miss Lorena Hickok who for eight years worked for the Associated Press. She is a rotund lady with a husky voice, a peremptory manner, baggy clothes. In her day one of the country's best female newshawks, she was assigned to Albany to cover the New York Executive Mansion where she became fast friends with Mrs. Roosevelt. Since then she has gone around a lot with the First Lady, up to New Brunswick and down to Warm Springs. Last July Mr. Hopkins, who is a great admirer of Mrs. Roosevelt, hired Miss Hickok...