Word: rubicund
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tall, rubicund Msgr. Gustavo Testa gained credit at Rome for his quiet oiling of troubled Franco-German waters in the Ruhr after World War I. In 1935 he became Apostolic Delegate to Egypt and Arabia. Testa is the first man to bear his new title: Apostolic Delegate to Palestine...
Churchill on Russia. On speech day, the House had the casual air it reserves for weighty debates. When Winston Churchill entered, he was as pink and rubicund as ever. Bevin followed him, wiping the sweat from his flushed face...
Until six months ago, short, rubicund Morton Smith was a typical radio ham. His house in hot, humid San Fernando Valley was equipped with a 1,000-watt transmitter, was located in the best sending and receiving area around Los Angeles. Then NBC, for which Amateur Smith works as engineer, decided to set up a listening post on the West Coast to keep tabs on the Far Eastern end of the Axis. Picked for the job was Morton Smith's little station. Last week the post got under...
...years old. He was fat (from good living), rubicund (from good drinking). He walked with a stoop, talked with a lisp. He was tired from a lifetime of fighting singlehanded against "the inadequacy, the apathy, the bloodlessness that ruled England"; from prophesying without effect the things that at last had happened. Britons who had denied him leadership in prosperity, offered him leadership in disaster. He offered them "toil and blood and tears." In its extremity the nation seemed to recognize for the first time that the whole life of this man, whom it had hated and defamed, was a preparation...
...roly-poly, rubicund Anglican vicar named R. Anderson Jardine felt an urgent spiritual call. In defiance of the Archbishop of Canterbury he married the Duke of Windsor and Mrs. Wallis Warfield. Later he turned up in Hollywood, earned a living by marrying romantic couples who wanted to be wed by the man who had married the Duke and Wally...