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To the dismay of more portly ministers in tow, he also made a habit of jogging onto stage at public events.
But the portly housekeeper was already chugging back the way she came.
The way American newspapers caricatured his portly build and bald head, portraying him like some stubby supervillain sprung from the pages of one of their ludicrous comic books.
Veytia, a portly figure with a bushy mustache, seemed an unlikely Eliot Ness, but he was credited with reducing violence and hailed as “the terror of every criminal” in a laudatory corrido, or ballad.
"Cyril", as he is known to some, is said to be a portly man with a very gruff voice.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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