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Word: mouthing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cause but the Times has elevated it to a kind of daffy dignity. In fact, its bulldog tenacity and unconquerable championship of Hoover Dam has been so fierce that when an innocent cigaret company offered it a whole page advertisement tying up the great project with a happy mouth, but referring to it always as Boulder Dam, the Times accepted it like a shot and suspended its holy vow for that day. But it promptly returned to its own Republican nomenclature the following morning and recently it carried a cartoon showing Uncle Sam rather pitifully reminding the President again that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 21, 1935 | 10/21/1935 | See Source »

...well represented by Sherwood's romantic western comedy, "The Petrified Forest," and by young Odet's panorama of life among the lowly in New York City, "Awake And Sing." Then there is the powerful and biting "The Children's Hour," which unfortunately leaves a bad taste in the mouth. The year's Pulitzer Prize play is rather a weak sister, as it was a compromise candidate, "The Old Maid." The other four plays are undistinguished, run-of-the-mill comedies and melodramas, "Accent on Youth," "Lost Horizons," Britisher Van Druten's "The Distaff Side," and Kauffman's tourde-force play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 10/15/1935 | See Source »

...damages to her beauty in an automobile smash. Said Sexpert Carroll: "She had lustrous hair of fine texture, a forehead like a snow peak and eyes that made men swoon." Said the Justice: "Strike that out. Be more specific." Said Witness Carroll: "Her eyes were bright, her teeth and mouth regular, as was her chest, her throat lovely and her lips inviting." Taking a final look at Miss Wenzel's scarred, pitted face, the jury retired briefly, awarded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 14, 1935 | 10/14/1935 | See Source »

...finds the dangerous convict unexpectedly out on parole. While attending to these difficulties, he rescues a Long Island heiress (Louise Henry) from kidnappers, loses his heart to an entertainer (Dorothy Page) and a small dog named Hamburger. The smart talk, unfortunately, is the sort that goes sour in any mouth but Mae West's. Says Miss Page to the convict, who is patting her leg: "That's the wooden one-be careful of the splinters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 7, 1935 | 10/7/1935 | See Source »

...endowed with giveaway country weeklies, had no good ones. To amend the situation they started the Brookline Citizen in Boston's swankest suburb, proceeded to give it away to some 18,000 Brooklinites. By last week at least one reader had looked the gift horse in in the mouth and found it not to his liking. On the Citizen's editorial page appeared this letter from one Peter McMurrer: Will you kindly refrain from having the Citizen deposited at my door and thus save me the necessity of carrying it to the the ash can. ... Following the letter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Nuisance Value | 10/7/1935 | See Source »

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