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...famed for researches in industrial, educational and animal psychology, is reputed to make use of everyone he encounters as research material. Dr. Thorndike found that his numerous subjects, asked to judge by sound alone, preferred such words as harmony, ma donna, resolute, serene, swan to such others as belch, waddle, stink and wart. But when the human sounding-boards were confronted with nonsense words there was no marked preference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mind Study | 9/17/1934 | See Source »

...neighborhood cinema. As he took his seat, his foul breath caused others to jerk their heads away. He pretended not to notice, put a cigaret between his lips. Just as he brought the lighted match, carefully cupped in his hands, up to the cigaret, he emitted a mighty belch. There was a sudden flash of flame, a rumbling "poom," a smell of singed hair. The cigaret was projected by the explosion over three rows of seats. "In pain and confusion," declared the Lancet, British medical weekly, in reporting the case of this fiery belcher this month, "he had hurriedly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fiery Belch | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

...history is the improved quality of the current radio broadcasts. Not that the ether is purged to a dull intellectualism, as those who have listened to recipes for cheese custard, and Swedish discuses, will be the first to deny. We still have our "mauvaises quatres d'heure" of advertising belch, Irish minstrels, and Poet Princes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ARS GRATIA ADVERTISING | 2/23/1934 | See Source »

...light and virile. All these things, predicted from a reading of the east, come true. Nevertheless, the show is entertaining. Chuck Connors, a saloonkeeper, wallows about in a sea of beer and oaths, delivering beautiful blows to the jaws of his enemies, and, at one point, emitting a belch which is a classic. He is flashy and rude, with diamond horseshoes and checkered suits; he is not always convincing, but he is always amusing. George Raft shows us Steve Brodie, the Bowery's most famous character, in all the glamour and belligerency of his mad career. When he and Chuck...

Author: By S. H. W., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 11/10/1933 | See Source »

...must stay and look after the camera. Faster & faster the bag dropped until a ground wind caught it, dragged it across the town of Valley Stream. As Bonette & camera dropped safely upon the roof of a lumberyard, the bag fouled a telephone pole, spilling out such an enormous belch of black smoke that scared villagers thought the town was afire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Hot Aeronauts | 5/29/1933 | See Source »

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