Word: jowl
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...clings to the judgeship and he lives in "Allright-niks Row, Riverside Drive. . . . The Ghetto called anyone who was well off-one who is all right in this world, that is, well fixed- allrightniks." Meyer is well fixed-a great beast of a man. "Haunch, paunch and jowl" his enemies had called him. It pierced his hide a little, that name. He remembered it in critical moments...
...HAUNCH, PAUNCH AHD JOWL-An Anonymous Autobiography-Boni...
...things to all men." Under its broad tent meet together Christian and Free-religionist, and enjoy a social chat on the philosophy of the unknowable, in place of the wonted clash of arms. Here too may be seen together the much-lamented combination of "cigarette and ulster" cheek by jowl with the ardent democrat, who sits with his feet on the table to cultivate equality, discussing the philosophy of the absolute, where there shall be no table, no cigarettes, no feet, and no ulsters, but all will be pure thought...