Word: rotunds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...height of voluptuousness came in the first scene of Act Two. Blanche Thebom may not be the world's most beautiful Amneris, but when I saw her lounging on her divan being fanned and bathed by dozens of slaves, I couldn't help wondering why Radames chose the rotund Aida instead...
...best, no comic strip was more whimsically humorous than Crockett Johnson's Barnaby. The world of five-year-old Barnaby was peopled by such characters as McSnoyd, an invisible leprechaun who talked with a Bronx accent, Gorgon, a talking dog, Gus, a friendly ghost, and a rotund, urbane fairy godfather named J. J. O'Malley. O'Malley's cigar doubled as a magic wand and usually kept him and Barnaby at odds with the slow-witted real world around them...
Although the poll dips into various other possible causes for this season's dismal showing, ("Has alumni pressure been excessive this year?") it centers most of its probing on the rotund Hickman...
Liquor merchants reached into the dark recesses of hidden cellars, hoping that continued sub-freezing temperatures would bring added customers for their liquid warmth. One rotund merchant, caught reaching for a case of Haig and Haig, beamed happily. "They always seem to want good stuff this weekend...
...Princeton game are strangely absent, and the undergraduate spirit seems broken after the worst Yale football season since 1941. There are some who feel that Herman Hickman has failed with excellent material, and they feel certain that a loss to the Crimson would put strong alumni pressure on the rotund coach, now in the second year of a ten year contract...