Word: belching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some words Carol knows: lemonade, candy, ice, cream, lollypop, cigar, cigaret, tobacco, pants, pajamas, locust, katydid, Mae West, come, up, see, me, some, time, buzz, rhumba, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, nine, ten, seventeen, hippopotamus, lavatory, belch, sneeze, Jesus, pop, eye, goofy, flush, toilet, groceries, fruit, nuts, nertz...
...original which has been widely, if not wisely, admired for its daring fantasy. The picture contains a scene in which Neptune uses his trident to frighten the patrons of a deluxe Manhattan swimming pool, an episode in which Bacchus finds modern whiskey so fiery it makes him belch, a passage in which Hebe discovers a container full of paper cups. Alan Mowbray plays the inventor with admirable presence of mind. Meg, the stone girl who becomes his accomplice when he converts her into flesh & blood, is Florine McKinney. Typical shot: Venus de Milo experimenting with a pair of arms...
...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...
...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...
...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...