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Word: foamed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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While smiles widened, he quaffed a tankard of palate-puckering ale. Emerging from the foam he cried: "This is indeed a 'bitter' day for the Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Bitter Ale | 2/22/1926 | See Source »

Teacher John Thomas Scopes remains convicted. The "classic struggle" has been permitted, by its erstwhile foam-mouthed partisans on both sides, to dwindle into obscurity. The anti-evolution law stands in Tennessee, but, satisfied with their momentarily magnificent gesticulations, the evolutionist newspapers no longer keep bright the diadem of obloquy with which they crowned that state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Great Trial | 1/18/1926 | See Source »

...begin. When at last he entered, he began to thump the keys in an unmerciful manner, forcing his tone, letting his left hand get in front of his right and pouring out his music like beer carelessly dumped into a mug too small for it so that a turbulent foam froths over. And yet, by some strange madness in his playing he gave his technical vagaries the air of having been written for him by Wagner; he tumbled a sunset thunder-mountain into the fustian stalls of Carnegie Hall; he rocked the hearts of shriveled critics so that they swore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Music Notes, Dec. 7, 1925 | 12/7/1925 | See Source »

...invisible but murderous wrestler who twists his head in a series of jerks toward one or other shoulder, screws his limbs, contorts his body-a demon who causes him to bite his own tongue, eject the contents of his bowels and bladder, to bubble at the mouth with foam until his aspect becomes so shocking that it may well induce a similar attack in the beholder-this devil-ridden man may be an epileptic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Epilepsy Cure? | 11/9/1925 | See Source »

...stronghold village of Bribane, was enveloped by the smoke of burning crops and villages and the fumes of exploding shells. Armored cars and cavalry advanced up the easier slopes, while battalion after battalion of infantry stormed the steep western salient like a rising tide, preceded by a deadly, frothing foam of shrapnel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ten to One in Morocco | 9/28/1925 | See Source »

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