Word: rotunds
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...HATTER MYSTERY - John Dickson Carr-Harper ($2). London's jolly hat stealer makes a grave error, brings scandal and murder to a proud family. Reluctantly, rotund Dr. Fell finds the guilty member...
Subscriber Martin notwithstanding, the State Department denies that short, rotund Minister Southard entered Addis Ababa on an ass, states that he entered in a motor car. The Emperor still bestrides an ass when reviewing troops, tendered an ass to Minister Southard who declined the ceremonial beast with thanks...
...English derby at Epsom Downs was founded by the racing Earls of Derby 153 years ago to amuse a boisterous party of dinner guests. Only twice in all those years did their house win it. The twelfth earl won in 1787. Roseate, rotund Edward George Villiers Stanley, the present Lord Derby, won it in 1924 with Sanso-vino, thereby gratifying one of his two life wishes.* Last week he surprised himself by winning it again, this time with Hyperion...
...that Germany was "just as normal and orderly as could be desired." What every reporter on the Bremen saw in it was the power of Adolf Hitler to stifle all opinions but his own. Last week he dismissed Consul-General Kiep's colleague in Manhattan, rotund, jovial Consul Paul Schwarz, for not being a Nazi...
...brief: unless the Metropolitan-Yickers engineers were released at once, unless the Soviet Government promised that they would never have to stand trial, Britain will place an embargo on all Russian goods, effective April 17, when the present Anglo-Russian trade agreement expires. Before Sir Esmond had finished, rotund Commissar Litvinov interrupted...