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Word: mouth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King (RKO-Radio) places Joe E. Brown, his great mouth and banshee yawp in the newspaper business, to the patent disadvantage of all concerned. In the course of his six-reel career he frustrates craven intrigues in a turbulent Graustarkian monarchy, out-halfwits his press rival, Paul Kelly, wins the hand of Puppet Princess Helen Mack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

...adventure" in running his old university, which he insisted on doing without pay. Soon he put Education on a business basis, balancing the budget by reducing expenses from $9,000,000 to $6,000,000 a year, projecting a 15-year money-raising program to replace the hand-to-mouth system of making the rounds of donors each year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Penn Money | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

...would be 822,000,000 tons. Most intelligent insect: the ant, though the wasp and bee run it a close second. Most surprising insect: the dragon fly, which is so fond of live meat it will even eat parts of itself, starting at the tail and eating toward its mouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Puck's Backyard | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

...thinking, and I got a book about it, which was very interesting. But now, whenever I look hard at a professor, and try to think about what he's saying, he just looks back at me in the strangest way. He doesn't say anything and his mouth opens and shuts like a fish. Yesterday this lasted five minutes until somebody gave him a drink of water. What should I do? Trustingly, N. Cephalitis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Your Uncle Smugly Says | 10/21/1937 | See Source »

...Charming. He has the loveliest blue eyes and curliest brown hair I ever did see; he reminds me more of my poor William, as he was when he was, every time I go into the room. And he sleeps just like William did, on his right side with his mouth open. I know, because one Sunday I walked into his bedroom thinking he was up and gone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/20/1937 | See Source »

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