Word: motoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rattling Tongue. But his principal asset is his proficiency at something called scat-a form of singing in which the performer, instead of mouthing words, gushes forth an unintelligible gibberish most closely resembling a spluttering outboard motor. His radio signature is a scat phrase which, written down, looks something like this...
...bile. Her liver was so sluggish that it had constantly to be primed in order to make it pump her bile. . . . Just before we went into the auditorium of the schoolhouse, she took two of the priming pills and I was very disappointed not to hear liver's motor start and a cheery chug-chug-splash as it pumped Mrs. Hicks' bile into her bilge...
...cost of the strikes was not yet paid in full. It would take ten days for steel production to get really started, perhaps ten more days to reach full operation. Ford Motor Co., where 40,000 workers were out for lack of steel, would take at least two weeks to get back to normal production level. Some smaller manufacturers might take considerably longer...
...Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 3 admittedly played a gallant role in the delaying action of the Philippine retreat. But MGM has succumbed to the usual temptation of ascribing too much glory to too small a company. What was originally an honest account of the P.T. boats' performance has now been magnified and somewhat distorted; too many guns and too much shooting have detracted from the realism which could have made this one of the few really good war pictures...
...cardinal-elect might not travel to Rome: Johannes de Jong of Utrecht, Holland's first cardinal since the Reformation, whose physician decided he had not yet recovered from a recent motor accident. His red hat would be brought to him by a papal legate...