Word: rotundly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British Consul General, Rabbi Louis Leopold Mann and numerous ministers, paid $2 apiece to eat fruit, asparagus soup, chicken, Salade Peoples Church, Frozen Cake 25th Jubilee. The jubilee was that of the world's largest Unitarian church (2,500 members), founded with 67 members in 1912 by a rotund, swarthy little man who today is Chicago's most popular Protestant pastor...
...Short, rotund, always cheerful, "Eric" Erickson, son of a Swedish engineer, was a product of the Brooklyn public schools. His first important job came at 24 as advertising manager for James McCutcheon Co. Two years later, in 1902, he formed his own agency and McCutcheon was his first account. It stayed with him all his life. He made the friendship of William Hamlin Childs, a power in Barrett Co. (Tarvia, roofing, chemicals), and that big Allied Chemical subsidiary became his first major account. Liking his advice, Barrett Co. invited him to become a board member, first of the series...
...satire of rotund Art Young is gentler, his humor more pointed, and his following is a generation older and more devoted than Grosz's, but he too was tried for sedition during the War when the editors of the Masses (Art Young, John Reed, Floyd Dell, Max Eastman) went on trial for "obstructing the draft." Art Young fell asleep at the trial, did a self-caricature entitled Art Young on Trial for His Life which was later bid for by the prosecuting attorney. Born in Monroe, Wis. 70 years ago, Satirist Art Young has been sensitive to but never...
...carrier to step through the gap in the opposing line. Under Chick Meehan at Syracuse, Coach Waldorf learned to make players play well because they like it. He rarely bothers with scrimmages, sees to it that practice never interferes with study and has entirely eliminated locker-room oratory. Earnest, rotund, prematurely grey, he extends his good nature not only to his players but to his four assistants, with whom he discusses the week's plans for five hours every Sunday night, and to whom he assigns most of the credit for Northwestern's prowess...
...from Shreveport to New Orleans, posted $5,000 reward for the murderers. While rumors crackled the Federal Government might take a hand because of interference with the mails, the National Mediation Board proclaimed its hands tied because of President Couch's refusal to arbitrate. Hopefully Louisiana's rotund Governor Leche called a peace conference for this week...