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Sunday, he secured a new album of Council Bluffs Classics by Blubber-mouth McDaniels, Happie Willsie, and Joe "Clarion" Hamilton. He returned to his room late Sunday evening after a long bull session with Harry "Alligator" Munroe '43 on the double-tonguing and the comparative merits of the French horn in Tallahassee style and played through his album, soaking in each hot lick, until three in the morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jive Enthusiast Bulls Into Night; Late to Divisionals | 5/6/1941 | See Source »

Scripps-Howard's Ray Lamb reported that Local 16,975 of United Sea Food Workers Union (a Federal union) had rehired as its business agent blubber-mouthed, notorious Joseph ("Socks") Lanza. Known as Sea Food Papa, the Tsar of the Fulton Fish Market, and other names, Socks Lanza is no rose under any of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Sea Food Papa | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

...sketches for the Disney gallery. Well out in front, striding along with a jaunty step, is Jiminy Cricket, Pinocchio's "official conscience." A worldly-wise fellow with a good heart, he nurtures his puppet-ward watchfully but without sentimentality. Montro the Whale is living proof that a glob of blubber covering the screen, with an eye in the middle, can with a sneeze inspire both terror and laughter. J. Mortimer Foulfellow, who is a hair-brushed and Oxford-accented Big Bad Fox, is not only a contemptible villain, but a social satire of no mean acidity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/22/1940 | See Source »

...sketches for the Disney gallery. Well out in front, striding along with a jaunty step, is Jiminy Cricket, Pinocchio's "official conscience." A worldly-wise fellow with a good heart, he nurtures his puppet-ward watchfully but without sentimentality. Monstro the Whale is living proof that a glob of blubber covering the screen, with an eye in the middle, can with a sneeze inspire both terror and laughter. J. Mortimer Foulfellow, who is a hairbrushed and Oxford-accented Big Bad. Fox, is not only a contemptible villain, but a social satire of no mean acidity. It may be a twentieth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/22/1940 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Woman and Heat | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

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