Word: rotunds
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...Gloomy Gus." The gentleman was, of course, Mr. Alanson Bigelow Houghton, chubby, rotund, 62, late U. S. Ambassador to Germany, now U. S. Ambassador to Britain, sine? birth destined to his present industrial mogulship: Chairman of the Board of the enormous Corning Glass Works, which the Houghtons of Corning, N. Y., have controlled for three generations...
Hilarious Irish students at the University of Belfast made much of a rotund, distinguished and almost equally hilarious visitor. They presented him with a "puddy hat," and he clapped it on his head. They called his attention to a clay pipe stuck in the brim, and he cried that he accepted it as a tribute to his chief, that inveterate pipe smoker, Premier Baldwin. They gave their puddy-hatted guest a shillalah. And while he brandished it, they drew him about the campus in an Irish "jaunting car."* Finally, in Ulster Hall, he received the honorary degree of Doctor...
...remain secret until the last possible moment. Months in advance De Blowitz had set to work to gain an ascendancy over one of the Iron Chancellor's secretaries. The secretary placed the information which De Blowitz desired in the lining of his own hat, and each day the rotund correspondent sought and found what he wanted in the dark checkroom of the restaurant at which he and the secretary dined-carefully apart. It is history that the Times secured a "beat" over every other newspaper in the world by printing the Treaty of Berlin on the very day when...
...suit to a chamelon. It was of a murder in a Harlem speakeasy: love, passion, hate and a dark gal gone wrong. Its dramatic hinges creaked; it was sung and nearly drowned out. For both scores one Ferdie Grofe did the instrumentation and was highly praised. Of rotund Paul Whiteman's third sortie into the precincts of "respectable" music (this concert was in Carnegie Hall), people said: "He's done it again...
...rotund Italian baritone, Mario Basiola, made his début as the King of Ethiopia...