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Word: fluttering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just try to get inside. At a circus, a clown named "Karandash" (pencil) kept dashing into the ring with a little white hen, which escaped in a flutter of feathers. "Why do you beat your hen?" asked the ringmaster. Answers Karandash: "Because she only gives me powdered eggs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: How To Wait | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

...almost patting the heroine on the head. The Fatal Weakness is sharp-eyed but light-reined comedy that would be straight matinee stuff were not much of it matinee stuff in reverse. Unsentimental Playwright Kelly has a way of suddenly going against traffic-of, for example, letting a curtain flutter down just where a standard-brander would start licking his chops. Again, after ringing all the changes on the predicament of a sympathetic wife who finds that her husband has been unfaithful, Kelly (and the wife) let the husband marry the other woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Big Week in Manhattan | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

...abstract picture, it was almost good enough to flutter the dovecots on Manhattan's arty 57th Street. It won Baltimore Photographer Aubrey Bodine first prize in a Camera magazine contest. Turned on its right side, it proved to be nothing more than a sunlight& -shadow shot of a row of Baltimore's white marble stoops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Point of View | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

...radio leash, a television tube, like an unwinking eye, watches the instrument panel, sends the readings of every dial to the screen in the radio truck. Other instruments send their readings direct on their own radio channels, recording on a moving paper strip such things as the flutter of the plane's wings, or the changing strain on its surfaces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Radio Test Pilot | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

...Then something broke the peace; like wind it was, the flutter of rising wind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Brown in Britain | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

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