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Among the 63 nations represented was a large delegation from Japan whose interest was heightened by the appearance and the speech of rotund Prince Iyesato Tokugawa, non-Rotarian president of the Japanese house of Peers...
Painter De Maio, 22, is the sixth successive student of the Yale School of Fine Arts to win the Prix de Rome in painting. Greatly pleasing is this to the School's rotund, genial Dean Everett Victor Meeks, to its prime teacher, famed mural painter Eugene Francis Savage, who so thoroughly imparts his theories, style and the principles of his luminous palette to his pupils that their work is frequently censured as being only an echo of Mr. Savage's. Painter De Maio is one of 13 children of a retired musician. To meet the expenses...
Leading the Parker defense was North Carolina's Democratic Senator Lee Slater Overman, who, with the exception of his colleague. Senator Simmons, has been in the Senate longer (27 years) than any other member. Senator Overman, rotund, white-haired, oldfashioned, declaimed as follows: ''Judge Parker loves the plain people. . . . Irreproachable character . . . honest man. . . . He expressed the sentiment [political exclusion of Negroes] that every man in the State really entertains. . . . A man ought not to be held responsible for what he says in a political speech...
...much sharper focus last week than his Supreme Court letters was the campaign Mr. Phillips was waging as a Republican candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania in this month's primary. A onetime Congressman who has grown rich in public utilities (oil and coal), he is large, rotund, married, father of five. His hair is grey, his face florid, his manner genial and approachable. He is running as an out-&-out Wet for the repeal of his State's enforcement act. Opposing him are Gifford Pinchot, a crusading Dry, and Francis Shunk Brown supported by both the Mellon and Vare factions...
...Rotund, big-voiced, bad-land-bred, city-smoothed, General Manager Koenigsberg will not seem out of place around the office of the Denver Post, where once trod fleshy, practical-joking, hard-boiled H. H. Tammen. Nor will a Hearstman be any novelty to Publisher Bonfils, who imported a setting of them in the Yellow '905 when he first began to make his paper a hissing to indiscreet Denver citizens...