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Word: mouthes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...return, Inspectors Leloup and Lelong decided to search the hotel. In the cellar, behind a pile of lumber, topped with a birdcage, they found a patch of new plaster. A few blows of a pickax revealed the naked, decaying body of Mme. Perron, a gag still wadded in her mouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Green Eyes | 10/1/1951 | See Source »

...were being strangled to death: "Gung-gung-gung-gung-gung." And though he remained a loud, low comedian, he labored for the sympathy of the audience and concentrated more & more on perfecting an air of bewilderment and insane incompetence, the eternal fall guy with one foot in his mouth and the other poised over a banana peel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: $6.60 Comedian | 10/1/1951 | See Source »

Foul Shot. In Milwaukee, as the Washington Park Zoo's prize hippopotamus opened its mouth wide for the audience, spectator Jerome Fischer got all set, wound up, heaved a beer can right into the yawning jaws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 10, 1951 | 9/10/1951 | See Source »

...Mouth & Ears. Jones took to hanging around poolrooms and corner stores in the central Luzon town of Angeles, giving out that he was "wanted" by the army. "At first it wasn't easy," he said. "Those Huk fellows don't trust anything that's got mouth and ears. But what really clinched my story was when, by arrangement with Magsaysay, I had my hotel room raided by the army while I was right across the street talking to a Huk contact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Spy Among the Huks | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

...from being the most beautiful babe in the Hollywoods (her mouth is a little too large). Her figure is not the best (she is a trifle skinny and by Hollywood standards her legs are only average). Certainly few people-least of all herself-claim that she is a good actress (though she likes to think of herself as a singer).** By Hollywood standards she lives modestly (salary: $2,000 a week), enjoys few luxuries except a maid and a Cadillac (a gift from Frankie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Farmer's Daughter | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

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