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Word: paunch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...solid, imperturbable, he sat at his desk with an air of utter confidence-the alert, nonchalant confidence of a skilled worker moving swiftly in a routine task. The crushing responsibilities of 1940 he wore as familiarly, as easily as his speckly seersucker suit, buttoned into thick wrinkles over his paunch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Prelude to History | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

...Giovanni Martinelli for his own raiment of deer skins and knightly robes. He washes himself in an antiquated, marble-topped washstand, glowers at the dead flies in the basin-shaped chandeliers, and applies his grease paint. In exactly 20 minutes he is dressed as the young Siegfried, his noble paunch encased in a deer skin, his stubby grey hair covered with a luxuriant blond wig. Thus accoutred, he lights a big black cigar and trundles down to the wings, where the waiting Kleinchen inspects him from top to toe, sees that his massive legs are properly powdered and that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Great Dane | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

Even more amazing is the make-up magic by which Westmore somehow transfers burly, bulging Cinemactor Laughton's paunch to his shoulder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 8, 1940 | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

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