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Word: mouths (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...revolvers, shotguns, Tommy guns and tear-gas shells into Bad Boy's window. After they had shot in 20 gas shells, they ran across the street and up the stairs of the rooming house. Bad Boy turned his .22 around and shot himself through the roof of the mouth. He was dead when the cops broke down his door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The End of Bad Boy Collins | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...because travelers mixed the corn meal with water or snow (we prefer the local white corn meal). But let me warn you that the shade of my Great Aunt Adeline, from whom I originally got the recipe, will surely haunt you if you put anything but butter on this mouth-watering concoction. Syrup and such will overcome the delicate flavor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Nov. 8, 1948 | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

...tragically abortive assistance of convention can reconcile the two men. In the last few minutes, "Red River" degenerates as a document of the West and winds up in a burst of horse-operatic fervor. Better see the main part again, partner, to get the bad taste out of your mouth...

Author: By Don Spence, | Title: Red River | 11/4/1948 | See Source »

There is something morally soft, something ideologically pulpy in the man who damns the lack of freedom abroad out of one side of his mouth, and out of the other damns the quality of the candidates at home, and refuses to vote. The same goes for the man who is too lazy to vote, or too busy, or too anything else you can think of. The right to vote is one of the big issues of the times; the duty to vote when you have the right is clear, simple, and absolute...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vote | 11/2/1948 | See Source »

After Due Warning. In Birmingham, England, William Bowson discovered that the falling board which hit him on the head and knocked the cigarette out of his mouth was a "No Smoking" sign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 1, 1948 | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

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