Word: rubicund
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...various mornings-after between 1908 and 1920, Amedeo Modigliani carved and painted in Paris a few hundred works of purity, warmth and glamour. Almost all the pictures represented people he loved, but with rubicund flesh, swan necks outstretched, ski-jump noses and sightless, slanting eyes. They were men and women molded to a very private vision of how humans ought to look, a vision that only Modigliani's power as a designer could put across and make seem beautiful. All his control was reserved for art; in life he had none...
...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...