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Word: mufflered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mississippi's Democratic Senator Bilbo: "The next step should be to put a muffler on Claude Pepper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: What They Said | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

Cathie (Deborah Kerr) represents wifely charm in a mousey woolen bathrobe, a muffler around her neck, sleep in her eyes, a cold in her nose. In an early-morning coma, Robert (Robert Donat) moves speechless and heavy-lidded about the drab little flat. First, the clean collar, the neat cravat. Then a cup of tea, a glance at the clock, a peek at the barometer, and down the stairs and off to his job as a bookkeeper, a symbol of hopeless, conventional timidity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 18, 1946 | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

Charming Cinemactress Kerr (Major Barbara, Colonel Blimp) plays the early, mousey Cathie as though she herself sniffled through breakfast every morning in bathrobe and muffler. She also looks miraculously fetching in the blue serge suit and black cotton stockings of "a Wren. Versatile Cinemactor Donat (The 39 Steps, Goodbye, Mr. Chips) seems happy in what is probably the freest, freshest comedy role he has ever had, and grows young even more gracefully than he grew old in the James Hilton heartwringer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 18, 1946 | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

...Detroit, red-haired Walter Reuther, scorning a hat but bundled up in overcoat and muffler, mounted a sound truck and went out to hearten the strikers. He did not try to paint a rosy picture. He reminded them that no strike benefits would be paid by the union, but in time there would be soup kitchens and the union would send a doctor to any member who needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Finish Fight? | 12/3/1945 | See Source »

Shortages. In Omaha, Michael Urkovich, 18, wound up in police court when auto inspectors found he lacked: a windshield, a muffler, proper lights, workable steering apparatus, sufficient brakes, and a driver's license; besides, the right front door fell off when it was opened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 27, 1945 | 8/27/1945 | See Source »

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