Word: plethora
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...immediate rebuttal to Willingdon's appointment to India was the question of who should succeed him as Governor General in Canada. Once more the press was ready with a plethora of names. For the time being it seemed unlikely that Canada would follow Australia, insist on a native Governor. Strangest suggestion was the converted Boer, onetime South African Prime Minister General Jan Christiaan Smuts. Most likely: either the Duke of York (it is known that King George is anxious for the duke to have administrative training as a possible heir to the throne) or Queen Mary's brother...
...Yorkers. This show has a plethora of talent. There is Ann Pennington, Ted Waring & Pennsylvanians, Charles King, Marie Cahill, Richard Carle, Clayton, Jackson & Durante and blonde Frances Williams-not to be confused with blonde Hope Williams, who is also in the cast. The songs and lyrics were written by Yaleman Cole Porter, the scenery de-signed by Yaleman Peter Arno. Unfortunately, there are so many stars in the show that most of them do not appear as often as the audience might wish. Dancer Ann Pennington has only two small numbers. Hope Williams, appearing for the first time in musicomedy...
...into dingy pagodas and drinking halls. This despite the fact that Saratoga Springs have the only naturally carbonated water east of the Rockies, that hydrotherapists consider them even more effective than Germany's Bad-Nauheim (Saratoga's nearest chemical affinity) in treating diseases of the heart, dyspepsia, jaundice, "abdominal plethora" (paunchiness...
...plethora of dull, traditional conceptions, Herbert Haseltine's black marble Aberdeen Angus Bull and Mark Symons' Crucifixion ("Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?") drew the most comment. In the latter, Calvary was peopled with a jeering crowd of moderns such as might be seen in any derisive London or Manhattan mob. There were the usual mannerly portraits of royalty. In one room Dame Laura Knight, attired in a white felt sombrero, with red pigtails coiled over her ears, was to be seen contemplating her own scenes of circus life, and Artist George Frederick Arthur Belcher stalked...