Word: rotunds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...survey to a nine-minute cartoon-a sort of Pinocchio in reverse. Little Hans is educated into a heiling, marching puppet, at last becomes a wooden cross marker in a vast military cemetery. Funniest bit: a Nazified fairy tale, in which the handsome, armored Prince (Hitler) wakes the rotund, snoozing Princess (Germany) with a kiss, lugs her away on a white horse to a boozy version of Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries. Most pointed bit: little Hans is punished for sympathizing with a fabled rabbit devoured by a wolf. Hans learns his lesson: "I hate the rabbit...
...China's shrewd, rotund Finance Minister H. H. ("Daddy") Kung knows that his ability to control prices in vast, loosely organized China would have been doubtful in any case. The Government has set open market ceilings. In some cities they function fairly well, in others badly, depending on the local administration. In the countryside they have little or no effect. Black markets are everywhere...
...days of Brazil's uneasy pro-Brazilian neutrality, her rotund, sparse-haired, convivial Chief of Staff, General Pedro Aurelio de Goes Monteiro, was popularly supposed to be hedging Brazil's bets, on the German side. He openly admired the German army and once was reported to have drunk a toast to its honor and glory. In April 1940 he received the Grand Cross of the Order of the German Eagle, for "valued services by Brazil to Germany." If the Axis had won before the U.S. became involved, Brazilian Patriot Goes Monteiro would have been in a position...
...Heaviest (but not fattest) person on record was Miles Darden. When he died in 1857 in Henderson County, Tenn., he weighed a trifle over 1,000 lb. But Darden was 7½ ft. tall. If he had been of the same proportions as rotund Mrs. Pontico, he would have weighed an even...
Clyde Reed has once been Governor of Kansas (1929-31), having got there with the help of Campaign Manager Alf Landon. He had a tempestuous administration, quarreled with everyone. His friend Roy Roberts, rotund managing editor of the Kansas City Star, told him: "If you manage to meet enough people, you're a cinch to be beaten next time." He did and he was. Reed stayed in political retirement until 1938, when he emerged to oppose rabble-rousing Rev. Gerald Winrod in the Republican Senatorial primary, went on to win the Senate seat...