Word: rotundly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...name of his Social Credit (TIME, Sept. 2, et seq.). Taking pen in hand, the Major resigned his $10,000 per annum job as Alberta's adviser, canceled his proposed voyage to oversee the setting up in Alberta of Social Credit. This tended to leave stranded the rotund, frog-eyed school principal and radiorating lay preacher William ("Bible Bill") Aberhart who won Alberta's last election and its Premiership by promising $25 per month in Social Credit to every bona fide citizen of the province. Premier Aberhart, whose detractors now derisively call him "Abie," spent the week getting...
...Endicott Peabody (TIME, Oct. 28) the distinction of being the grandest of them all. A distinguished, kindly man,'"Brother Horace" has the Taft good humor, the Taft chuckle, the flowing Taft mustache. But because he is six feet six and spare, he looks less like his rotund brother than like that other late great jurist, Oliver Wendell Holmes...
...policies of this Administration." The Herbert Hoover his listeners saw was not the grey-faced, discouraged oldster of 58 who drove down Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue and out of public life on March 4, 1933, but a vigorous figure of 61 with rosy cheeks filled out to their rotund par. The Hoover health had been restored solely by short morning walks near his Palo Alto home with his elkhounds "Weegie" and "Negri," by 45 min. drives up to San Francisco in his tan Buick touring car, Mr. Hoover at the wheel. The Hoover state of mind, while still definitely...
...Dodge, wealthy, blue-eyed, curly-haired Boston architect, married him after a brief romance and with him established a magnificent home in Florence. There went artists, writers, cosmopolitans, prophets, telling their stories, enacting dramas, and making bold or furtive love to their hostess. The Dodges knew Pen Browning, jolly, rotund sculptor who was always uncomfortable because people expected him to live up to his role as the offspring of the romance of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett. They knew Lady Paget, friend of Queen Victoria, theosophist who made her own shoes and who predicted the World War and the Russian...
...short, very stout, rotund, bald-headed man with a fine disposition," replied Witness Robinson. "You couldn't miss him if you ever saw a picture...