Word: squatly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bennett fought hardest to protect the empire from unionism, yet when he lost he was the first to advise Old Henry to sign up. In his long role as guardian, squat, flint-hard, bow-tied Mr. Bennett (he never wore a four-in-hand for fear someone would use it to choke him) was shot at, beaten up and stoned (see cut). He took all this as part of his watchdog job, relaxed by painting in oils, never questioned anything which Mr. Ford wanted done. He saw no reason to question. Said he: "I believe in the things that...
...puppet president of Japan's Republic of the Philippines, squat, bespectacled Jose P. Laurel lived in uneasy luxury. Peasant-born and Yale-educated, he occupied Manila's ornate Malacanan Palace, once the home of Manuel Quezon. He smoked special cigars with his name printed on the band. After guerrillas wounded him while he was golfing at the Wack Wack Country Club, he was provided with an armed guard of 600 men. In return for this, José Laurel-who had been a respected Manila attorney and a member of the Philippine Supreme Court -did the bidding...
...candidate was thoroughly enjoying Mexico's presidential election campaign last week. He was a squat, rumpled gum-chewing artist, palmist and poet named Pedro Rend...
...wirephoto which appeared on the front page of almost every U.S. newspaper, the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen did not look like a thing of beauty. Its squat towers, like two massive beer mugs, looked typically Teutonic. The picture, taken on a grey day, showed the grey rubble of war in the foreground. But the bridge was intact, and therein lay its exquisite beauty. Every American could see in it an imminent promise of victory in Europe...
...boys & girls who study orchestra and composition each summer among the trees of the National Music Camp at Interlochen, Mich., pay no dues to the American Federation of Musicians. Hence they had every reason to expect trouble from A.F. of M.'s squat, owl-eyed Czar James Caesar Petrillo...