Word: paunch
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...Untermyer scoffed: "This is just a play to the galleries." Said Mayor O'Brien to a newshawk as he hurried out after listening meekly in the background: "My dear boy, I've got a great big hole down here [patting his paunch]. I've got to hurry along and get some lunch...
Equipped with thick muscles, the suggestion of a paunch and a brisk, business-like walk, ruddy-faced Jack Crawford bears no resemblance whatever to the tall, somewhat languid youths of whom the U. S. first ten is largely composed. For a long time his game, too, failed to resemble theirs in efficiency. An excitable temperament and inability to control his shots held him back. Crawford started to play tennis on his father's 1,200-acre farm at Albury, New South Wales, took it up more seriously when his family moved to Sidney. In 1924, aged 16, he played...
...behind which clustered the House managers, headed by Judiciary Chairman Sumners. who were prosecuting the charges. At the other side was a third table where rigidly upright sat Defendant Louderback, flanked by Attorneys James M. Hanley and Walter H. Linforth. Judge Louderback's hands were folded over his paunch and his pale drawn face, with its puffy, unblinking eyes, was a mask of haughty indifference. Senators, exalted from their role of legislators to that of judges in a court from which there is no appeal, listened hour after hour to the flow of evidence, but could make no speeches...
...once offered a $25,000-a-year-job in Wall Street which she promptly refused. Her solicitude is extreme for her husband who, at 72, has all the suavity, grace and quickness of mind he possessed in his barrister days. He moves spryly, has only the suggestion of a paunch, but his health is most delicate...
...pudgy Canadian welter- weight shook his head at the hardest blows Leonard's bowarms could deliver. What was left, at 36, of the cleverest boxer the lightweight division ever knew was knocked down in the second round. In the sixth he could not hold his paunch in, found his legs behaving like Leon Errol's. McLarnin hit him on the side of his head with a straight right-hand blow. The Errol legs sagged. McLarnin hit right-left-right-left. Leonard tried to back away, could not move: tried to hold, could not lift his arms. McLarnin looked...