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Word: mouthings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...music swelled and filled the small room with a throbbing harmony. Slick Jones stood there, mouth agape, until he couldn't stand it any longer. He slipped out the door, and in a moment returned with his snare drum and cymbals. He got to work immediately, grinning from ear to ear. He is famed for wearing out a drum-skin once a week, and wearing out a pair of sticks every performance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Fats' Waller, Lightfooted Leviathan of Swingin', Gives Unsolicited Jam Session | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

...Ignacio the high-born stretched on the stone . . . Now he is finished. The rain enters his mouth. Like mad, his breath rushes from his staved-in chest, and Love, drenched in tears of snow, thaws upon the peaks of the cattle-lands. What do they say? Here lies a stinking silence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Raw Whiskey | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

...mouths of babes, parents are sometimes horrified to see emitted sturdy pink bubbles which burst with a snapping sound. A child who is expert with bubble gum can blow a globe almost as big as his head. Satisfaction is also to be derived from gulping back bubbles of moderate size, making them pop inside the mouth. As millions of U. S. moppets return to school this month these practices are going to be more prevalent, because September is a peak month for sales of "Blony" bubble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bowman's Bubbles | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

...Future. For a year all Europe has been handling the Spanish crisis with hand-to-mouth diplomacy. The issue is plain enough: Does Italy (and Germany) fear a collectivist state on the Mediterranean more than France (and Russia) fear a fascist state on her southern border? Britain, which always is fertile of ideas about governing other countries, has batted out a number of notions on the Spanish problem. The latest school of thought is that the best possible solution is partition, the historical model presumably being Panama, which revolted (with U. S. help) and split off from Colombia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: El Caudillo | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

...course in the first round of his 28th national championship. It was Evans' quarter-final match (against the defending champion, young Johnny Fischer) however, which stirred sentimentalists like Grantland Rice most profoundly. The match was delayed when a careless caddy taking a practice swing struck Mrs. Evansin the mouth with his club felled her loosened several teeth. After the start, Evans found his iron shots undependable and he was so tired from winning his morning match, against onetime Public Links Champion Frank Strafaci. that his timing went bad. Nevertheless, he was not beaten until the final green, where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Last, Goodman | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

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