Word: paunch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attractive as a person, which is what some of her less admiring critics would have us believe is her off-the-screen personality. Be this as it may, in the later sequences she manages to become so convincingly human, so persuasively drunk, so thoroughly funny, that with a paunch, a red nose, a hoarse voice, and certain unmentionables she could easily pass for W. C. Fields...
...opened on a plane so high that many Senators felt a little difficulty in breathing. Crowded galleries, hoping for an old-fashioned quick-&-dirty scrap, with plenty of rabbit punches and hitting in the clinches, were disappointed. The Senate wrapped the toga of dignity and dullness about its collective paunch, and gamely strove for classic words...
...hammer-hitting Lew Tendler, 42, sparred three rounds at a Philadelphia exhibition for charity, accorded each other the victory. Both now run restaurants, Leonard in Manhattan, Tendler in Philadelphia. Boxer Benny, who won a famous fight from Tendler in 1922 mostly by his wits, had already explained how the paunch-pushing would go: "He's going to hit me with a left hook-not too hard-and I'm going to talk him out of the fight all over again...
...current cacophony sound like the music of the spheres. And a kaleidoscopic flashback on World War 1 backs up Professor Elliott by showing that Harvard Square really is a very disagreeable place compared to a battlefield. Jack Oakie, though, provides some of the best mugging since he annexed a paunch and gave up Joe College roles; and he slips a couple of resounding swats past the censors' guard smack on Grable...
...after the election, Hopson draped his paunch over a courtroom chair, listened to the opening statement of Prosecuting Attorney Fulton, who told the court how Hoppy had wandered through the mazes of Associated, taking a cut of employes' salaries, padding bills against the system, pocketing profits from selling the services of one subsidiary to another, inducing investors to buy non-voting stocks and bonds while he held control with $100,000 of voting stock...