Word: blubbering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Women have another advantage, according to Dr. Hardy, which enables them to stand cold better than men-"a thicker insulating layer of superficial tissue" (vulgar translation: blubber). This natural protection enables a naked woman to feel no colder in a cool room than a man with a light suit of clothes on.* Result of these superior adaptations both to heat and to cold is that the temperature range of the "comfort zone" is twice as wide for women...
Here I am a Stranger (20th Century-Fox). Blubber-lipped David Paulding (Richard Greene) is a clean, upstanding, well-dressed boy with a veddy, veddy English accent and a brace of dimples he can switch on and off like headlights. His limpid life is complicated by a two-father complex. Father No. 1 (and sire) is Duke (pronounced Dook) Allen (Richard Dix), Stafford 1917, football, track, a brilliant writer who 20 years later is still winding up Chapter Four of his first novel. Father No. 2 is a famous lawyer (George Zucco) who married David's mother (Gladys George...
After that, he said, they took illegal whales in the daytime, did not bring them aboard until they thought the snooping Coast Guarder had bunked in for the night. Melodramatic climax of his tale: when he caught them blubber-handed, they began to treat him as a social outcast, and he lived for months in increasing apprehension, among black looks and whispered threats...
Young Henri drew pictures almost as soon as he could read, but at the age of 14 he broke a leg. The fracture was never properly set and a year later his other leg was broken too. Toulouse-Lautrec became a dwarf, shortsighted, blubber-lipped, with a normal trunk and tiny, shriveled limbs. Only 4 ft. 6 in. high, he could not lift an ordinary suitcase off the ground, had special sausage-shaped luggage designed for him. Fortunately, although his aristocratic family could not stand the sight of him, they kept him well supplied with cash...
...Puritans Joe Peden and "Little Joe" Hindle carried the mail, with the latter's third period collin cornor kick having a lot to do with halting any Dudley march before it could organize. In the Winthrop line, Charley Moore and "Blubber" Peters bore the brunt...