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Word: mouthing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...think that J shall never sec A poem like the G.O.P.; A P. whose hungry mouth is prest Against the Treasury's flowing breast; A P. that gathers Tax each day. And makes us lift our arms to fay; A P. that thinks that we have got A pair of cltiekctis in each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 17, 1932 | 10/17/1932 | See Source »

...less certain of who he is, Comedian Jimmy ("Schnozzle") Durante in his fattest cinema part to date gets a full-bodied chance to be hysterically himself. He sings several songs, goes into his famed epileptic fits with popping eyes, rudder nose (schnozzle) and satchel-mouth. When he gets thrown out of places, he dusts himself off absently, saves face by a victorious 11011 sequitur. Cinema audiences are shocked into laughter, as were once Manhattan nightclub audiences, when frail-looking (155-lb.) little Durante survives awful batterings, establishes the immortality of the comedian. Born in Manhattan's lower East Side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 10, 1932 | 10/10/1932 | See Source »

...Republican policy of protection in general and then support it on local specifications. He joined the Democratic combination that log-rolled into the Revenue Bill the oil and coal duties but stood out against the copper and lumber items which were gotten in by similar methods. Into his mouth during the 1930 tariff fight Democratic Pressagent Charles Michelson put many a thunderous phrase against the Hawley-Smoot Act which today sounds hollow and insincere. He has also been active for Federal relief for the growers of dark tobacco in his State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 3, 1932 | 10/3/1932 | See Source »

...small cyclone of war vortexed, meanwhile, around Colombia's inland port of Leticia located 2,500 miles above the mighty River Amazon's mouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Wars of the Week | 10/3/1932 | See Source »

...eighth round Max Schmeling suddenly pulled himself together and went to work. Mickey Walker was smacked to the canvas for a count of nine, then for a count of six. His mouth protector was slapped right into Schmeling's corner. The referee picked it up, awarded the decision to Schmeling, without boos. Even the Walker cheering section had to admit that Max Siegfried Otto Schmeling had fairly proved his claim to a match to regain his championship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: As Advertised | 10/3/1932 | See Source »

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