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Word: mouf (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unusual success as head of the government he remained an educator first and always. One of his initial moves was the inauguration of a night-school for legislators "to save the English language from humiliation" which action caused the senior senator from Mississippi to exclaim, "Well, shet man mouf!" and label the President "a razorback...

Author: By Fletcher P. Martin, | Title: 'Age of Conant' Wins Prize For A. M. Schlesinger, IV | 10/31/1946 | See Source »

...hillbilly ballad The Martins and the Coys is a burlesque of backwoods feuding which will delight lovers of radio rurality and of Paul Webb's mountaineer cartoons, and offend those who think such caricature as insulting as the hush-mah-mouf kind of comic contempt for Negroes. All the Cats Join In is a jukebox setting of Benny Goodman's record, in which orgiastic hepcats and bobby-soxers, mad on chocolate malteds, tear all over the place, paced and sustained by the sketching of a deft, rapid pencil. It will satisfy the young and the benign, sicken those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 6, 1946 | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

...railroad station in Meriden, Conn., taking along a pistol for the return trip. Never married, she adopted a son, Roland, and a daughter, known to Rosemarians as Bonnie Bell (now Mrs. Jacobus A. J. Van der Bunt Jr.). Famed is her long line of pet black poodles, from Mouf I to Mopsa. Famed also are her activities as a suffragette, as a women's leader in the Council of National Defense in World War I, as a member of the National Democratic Committee, as secretary of the Connecticut convention for repeal of the 18th Amendment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Rosemary's 50th | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

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