Word: rotundly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...afternoon last week Clark Howell sashayed proudly into the White House offices, with a friend in tow, to see the President. Newshawks gaped as they saw the rotund little Georgian's friend, a scraggle-haired bespectacled man in a white suit, with crimson suspenders visible under his open coat. Into the President's air-cooled office marched the politically-minded publisher of the Atlanta Constitution and his friend. Franklin Roosevelt swung in his chair and, smiling just as he smiles on pauper and potentate, stuck out his hand...
...Finland, away from the world's musical spotlight, there lives a bald, rotund old man who with his music has won more respect than almost any other living composer. Finns idolize their Jean Sibelius, stamp and cheer when they hear his music expertly played. Last year they cheered Werner Janssen, son of the Manhattan restaurateur ("Janssen Wants to See You"). And because Sibelius praised him lavishly too, young Janssen was given a chance this winter to conduct the New York Philharmonic-Symphony...
...Famille Henriot, painted about 1871, is a gay, sharply drawn canvas of a gentleman and two ladies seated in the dappled shade of a pear tree with two engaging poodles. Judgment of Paris, a swirling study in the pinks, reds, yellows of Paris (in a nightcap) and three rotund nudes, was painted in 1908 when Renoir was already an old man, deeply absorbed in the technique of broken color painting and already wracked with arthritis. The Durand-Ruel pictures were for the most part in Renoir's early manner. Outstanding were a luscious Bather and a self-portrait...
...public servants had been completely changed into a Graduate School of Business Administration. Most Harvardmen felt then that the nation's service offered too few opportunities for college-trained men, thought that they could better bend their efforts toward "making private business a profession." Under the deanship of rotund, bald, energetic Wallace Brett Donham, Harvard's Business School became in the 1920'$ big and proud and potent. Depression sobered the Business School. Depression, too, brought the New Deal and the New Deal created a host of new opportunities. Last week Harvard's President James Bryant Conant...
...Sibelius now working on his Eighth Symphony is bald, rotund, 68. He lives in a rambling two-story house in Jarvenpaa, 20 miles from Helsingfors. When U.S. tourists visit him he will tell them that he was never a prodigy, that he dislikes Wagner and physical exercise, loves Johann Strauss waltzes, once taught briefly at the New England Conservatory in Boston-and that no visitors are admitted to the second-floor studio where he does all his work...