Word: rotunds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rotund, easygoing Pappy Waldorf had one thing in his favor: the team was anxious to prove that it was not the players who were responsible for last year's disasters. Several players ran all summer to get their legs in shape; four of them, whose eyes were bad, got fitted with contact lenses. Last week California's Golden Bears scored their fifth straight victory of the season, over Washington State...
...meeting took place in the small hours of the morning. Communist Barbi began with elaborate politeness: "Priests are all right in a church, but their concern is with eternity, not with time measurement." Then suddenly he lost his temper: "Hand over that money!" Nello Checchi, a rotund, jolly Communist butcher, came to Barbi's assistance: "I am the only Communist member of your Clock Committee. I know that it has done nothing because," and he pointed a swollen, accusing finger at the priest, "you, Father Bernardoni, wanted it to do nothing." Cried Christian Democrat Gallo...
...that he is white-collar-deep in a mess of international jewel-and-art thieves. But the man who has survived the horrors of home (including a terrible little lap dog) is more than a match for sinister Boris Karloff, the Goldwyn Girls in full bloom, and even rotund Thurston Hall, the screen's unrivalled embodiment of extreme unction. Just in the nick of time Mitty saves the blonde and himself from a fate worse than death...
Moore, as a philosophic and rotund bum, has evolved a unique solution for his personal housing problem. He has a luxurious summer home and an equally luxurious winter home--both belonging to an ulcerated millionaire. Moore, however, reversing the usual custom, resides in the tycoon's town house in New York during the winter, and moves to the Virginia estate of Mr. Moneybags when the latter gentleman comes north for the summer. Except for his kind heart, which causes him to take in an un-manageaable number of guests, and the loneliness of the millionaire's daughter, which takes...
Died. William Leslie Maxson, 49, jovial, rotund engineer and industrialist; of cancer; in Boston. Maxson, for 15 years a U.S. Navy officer, was blessed by dyers for two big aids in long-distance flying: 1) his invention of a process to precook and quick-freeze complete meals for easy preparation during flight; 2) his "robot navigator," a mechanical computer for quick solution of complex celestial navigation problems...