Word: thickset
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...Baron is short, thickset, determined. Keen eyes peer from behind heavy round spectacles. His broad stubby mustache, his quick big-toothed smile are more than vaguely Rooseveltian. Years ago as a Japanese diplomat Baron Shidehara knew the Rough Rider President, recalls him warmly as "my friend." Asked recently point blank, "Has anyone ever told you that you look like Roosevelt?" Japan's Foreign Minister replied with crisp satisfaction, ''Yes, someone told me that in Washington on my first visit...
From the Treasury basement, where gold is stored, to the east wing of the White House runs a dark little tunnel under East Executive Avenue. Many times through this tunnel last week passed a thickset, youngish man with a big nose and eyes of clearest blue. He wore a linen suit. His teeth bit hard into a Benson & Hedges cigar. He walked fast. Out of the tunnel he skirted the rear portico of the White House (where the presidential kennels are), paced down the west colonnade, marched unannounced by a back door into the offices of the President...
William Edgar Borah. Greatest Insurgent of them all, the man whose shadow from the Capitol falls farthest across the land, is thickset, long-lipped, blue-eyed William Edgar Borah of Idaho. All the world knows that he is the Senate's supreme orator, that he rides his horse "Governor" alone in Rock Creek Park every morning, that on his head is a mane of shaggy dark hair. All the world does not know that he carries a pocket comb, that he licks his thumb and slicks down his eyebrows, that he scribbles his name on loose paper when listening...
...midnight last week Chicago newshawks and photographers assembled in a bare room at the call of Chief Investigator Pat Roche of the State's Attorney's office. Before them was led a tall, thickset, wavy-haired young man named Leo V. ("Buster") Brothers. Investigator Roche proudly introduced him as the hired assassin of Alfred ("Jake") Lingle, the racketeering Tribune crime reporter, who, while walking through a pedestrian's subway beneath famed Michigan Avenue, was plugged with one neat .32 bullet in his head head head (TIME, June 23). Chicago's best murder mystery of a decade...
...critics and public now have a chance to judge the mature work of a painter who has become almost as essential to smart dinner table conversation as backgammon: Jose Clemente Orozco. Vibrant, intensely serious Artist Orozco is Mexican, of lineage from the 15th Century Conquistador es. One-armed, squarejawed, thickset, with glittering spectacles he looks not unlike an ecstatic bullfrog. In 1922, after a painful apprenticeship tinting postcards in California and drawing scathing cartoons in Mexico, he joined the famed Syndicate of Revolutionary Artists organized by Minister of Education Jose Vasconcelos.* Led by spectacular, pistol-carrying Diego Rivera they worked...