Word: paunch
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Soon two angry factions faced each other in the square. The coffee-house owners hastily cleared the tables. This gave watching Mayor Cavaliere Giovanni Marcovaldi, who is stone deaf, an inkling of what was going on. His paunch protruding majestically, he carried himself to the middle of the square like a ship in full sail and shouted: "Children, children, don't let's be children. You are citizens. If you have a disagreement, appoint a committee. Don't make Fiumicino the laughing stock of the countryside...
Although Loretta Young, in the title role, loses a split decision to a tough Swedish accent, she still manages to turn in a competent job. Joseph Cotten as the Hollywood style congressman no paunch and Charles Bickford as a highly fictional butler, contribute to the general rewarding effect. Honors for the evening, however, must go to Ethel Barrymore who, in the role of the political matriarch, gives the impression that she could clean up Boston polities or reform the Republican party without breaking into much of a sweat...
...taste, serve chilled. Price: $6.60). Even Molotov showed signs of gaiety. One evening, when movies were being shown at the Aero Club, he took special interest in a Russian animated cartoon involving the capers of three big bears. He was observed in convulsions of laughter and clutching his paunch when the biggest bear managed to outwit ths whole menagerie...
...jammed along the back and milled around the corridors outside, trying to get in. On the floor below, Senators began to arrive, pumping each other's hands, looking for their desks and seats for their friends. At 18 minutes to noon, Bilbo stumped in-reddish brown suit, sagging paunch, sunken cheeks, hair slicked down on his round skull...
...haunch, the paunch, the thigh...