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Word: paunch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Large of pate and paunch, small of eye and aim, Leader Watson perfectly typifies the old-style politician with whom the Hoover Administration is supposed to have little in common. But for that circumstance, Leader Watson could scarcely have asked for more favorable auspices when he set out in March to lead his party in the Senate: a successful election; a majority (on paper) of 16 Republican votes in the Senate; a Democratic opposition lacking a definite program; a new President, potent with the prestige of undistributed patronage. But even with these advantages Leader Watson, thought many of his fellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mr. Watson's Week | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

Blaine−"is peerless in blatancy. . . . On a heavy gold chain across his paunch he sports a large Elk's molar, a gift from admiring lodge brothers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Progressives Flayed | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

...Pardon me, sir!" mumbled Pudgy Paunch, as Long Legs rose and stepped into the aisle, "Pardon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DENMARK: Long Legs v. Pudgy Paunch | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...version. Suddenly members of the so- called National Assembly?which has no parliamentary powers?heard the click of the Dictator's silver spurs and beheld him mounting the Tribune in full regalia. They saw a beefy, self-indulgent man, but withal keen-eyed and striking despite his paunch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Gallantry to Rebels | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

Charles Clark Younggreen is 37, stocky, with the beginning of a paunch, affable, shrewd; he is ready to talk about anything, but whatever he talks about he is talking business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Admen | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

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