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Word: paunch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lady in Question" gives audience a look at much-boomed Rita Hayworth. The boom looks very much like the South Sea Bubble of L' Affaire Sheridan. The real substance of the picture is Brian Aherne, who, adorned with a paunch and soup-strainer, puts on a fine characterization not in line with his usual dashing roles. But still and all, the film is B minus stuff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 11/15/1940 | See Source »

...lead pipe to swing whenever he thought of him, was "Chappie"- St. Paul's famed Housemaster Willard "Chappie" Scudder. Chappie wore a bifocal pince-nez and a drooping, waxed mustache, dressed in the height of fashion, was thoroughly at home at lawn parties,"never let his slight paunch get to be more than a slight paunch," in every way exemplified "the right attitude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Wrong Attitude | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

...threatened to go on forever. Like most movies that are built on the theory that four stars are better than one, Boom Town is not so much a picture as a series of personal appearances. Stripped to a suit of balbriggan underwear in one scene, Clark Gable reveals a paunch. Fully clothed throughout, Hedy Lamarr still reveals nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 26, 1940 | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

...thin man's thoughtful eyes were tired, his scanty hair disordered on his pallid skull. His bony shoulders drooped like a weary farmer's, his little paunch sagged in the baggy white trousers that flapped inches short of his ankles. Harry Hopkins was tired, but he was happy, happy as he could be. Constantly he smiled; often his short barking laugh broke out. The long, tortuous road to a Third Term was nearly past its next-to-last milestone; the Democratic Convention was being held in his bedroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: By Acclamation | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

...with causes of death, he is regarded by many laymen as a great viewer-with-alarm. He publishes a series of creepy pamphlets every month begging motorists not to drive more than 35 miles an hour (he never speeds himself), warning middle-aged men of the dangers of a paunch, telling landlubbers to stay out of small boats. As every policyholder knows, one of the most dangerous places in the world is a bathroom. But Dr. Dublin has an answer even for that one-an article called "How to Take a Bath and Live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Vital Statistician | 7/15/1940 | See Source »

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