Word: liverish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hero of at least 44 romans policiers by Georges Simenon and generally conceded to be one of the most believable bloodhounds in the literature. Plain, paunchy, respectable, he has the shrewdness as well as the looks of a village grocer; and in this film he is played to the liverish life by Jean Gabin...
...Vichy, largest and most famed of the spas, where Roman officers dunked their ladies 2,000 years ago, crowds of liverish patients are going through a similar waterlogged routine. Said the director of a Vichy spa: "The Americans aren't coming, or the British either, since the Americans don't get bad livers from their colonies and the British don't get money from the Bank of England. But if you think Vichy is out of fashion, you couldn't be more wrong. We've never had such figures in our history...