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