Word: rubicund
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...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...
With his Philco career thus launched with a splash, the rubicund seer of Greenwich Time rolled back to his placid office in the Connecticut hills, got out Saturday's paper (circulation...
...classic art." To do the subject justice an exhibition would have to include several items not visible at Knoedler's. Among them: 1) a nude by Giorgione, Titian's great Venetian contemporary; 2) an example of the mighty figure painting of Michelangelo; 3) one of Rubens' rubicund exaltations of Flemish flesh; 4) more significant examples of choice modern work, both in the old tradition...
...foot triple-screw yacht Q. E. D. poised one afternoon last week ready to glide down her skids for a maiden wetting in the ebbing waters of Manhattan's malodorous Harlem River. Beneath the concave bows of this fuselage-shaped ship stood her owner and chief designer, round, rubicund Hollander Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker, an old hand at aircrafting, a brand-new hand at shipbuilding...
...France at 45, and a fight with Tammany for his seat on the bench. Last week when defense attorneys in the current restaurant racket trial suggested that he disqualify himself from presiding because he had shown "unconscious or subconscious" prejudice in favor of Prosecutor Dewey, the rubicund justice smilingly consulted his "moral conscience," declined...