Word: rotunds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Richard Buckminster Fuller's name is mentioned, most architects chuckle indulgently; a few reverently bow their heads. Sparkling "Bucky" Fuller, a rotund little man who looks more businesslike than he is, long ago startled the U.S. with designs for three-wheeled, tear-shaped cars and pear-shaped "Dymaxion" houses hung from metal masts, but he never succeeded in convincing investors that his ideas were adaptable to mass production - the only kind that interests him. At 54, Bucky confesses without a smile that his one purpose is still to house "the 800 million people now alive who will...
...Roving, rotund Elliot Paul has focused his shrewd eyes on a good many different communities in his 58 years. What he saw in the doomed Balaeric village of Santa Eulalia made moving reading in The Life and Death of a Spanish Town. One short street on the Left Bank furnished material for a bawdy but penetrating look at pre-war France in The Last Time I Saw Paris...
...rotund phrases he pointed out, in the midst of negotiations for a new contract, that a three-day week would both spread the work and shore up coal prices...
...their rotund, accommodating little friends made their debut in March. Sailors on H.M.S. Ganges formed a Shmoo club, English farmers reported that hens were laying Shmoo-shaped eggs, and subscribers sent Shmoo-shaped potatoes. But the postman also brought a mailbag of protests. Reader R.E. Wilkinson thought Shmoos were definitely un-British. Wrote he: "The Shmoos are encouraging the very characteristics that are ruining this country ... lazy-mindedness and the deliberate pursuit of everything that is slovenly and American." A Mrs. Collins found the drawing "ridiculous" and the language "unintelligible...
...Punch's well-ensconced readers would not be startled from their armchairs: they had chuckled over the cartoons of rotund Cyril Kenneth Bird, 61, for years. As art editor, Bird, a jolly, crinkly little man, has been responsible for much of the streamlining of Punch in recent years. He had worked under quiet and gracious Editor Edmund George Valpy Knox* ("Evoe" to his readers), who was now retiring at 67. Bird will take over as editor next All Fools...