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Word: mutt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comedy is none too subtly, or for that matter none too well, supplied by a cluster of Englishmen on the order of Mutt and Jeff's friend, Sir Sidney. They mumble and fumble and glare in the approved comic-strip fashion. Then there is the Cockney, who it is probably feared would lose his identity if he were allowed to very from show to show...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: Tbe Crimson Moviegoer | 4/17/1937 | See Source »

...Carroll, as a thoroughly bored Scottish magistrate before whom Patsy's case ultimately comes; to Actress Allgood, Patsy's voluble and indignant owner; and to Colonel himself, an amiable, whitish mutt more than glad to give anyone his paw, goes high praise for keeping a theatrical puffball slyly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 22, 1937 | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

...permitting the investment in corporate stocks of unrestricted trust monies created a sensation among sensation-proof Philadelphia lawyers. Wrote New-Dealing Judge William Curtis Bok, grandson of the late great publisher Cyrus Herman Kotzschmar Curtis: "Fiduciaries cannot be put in vacuum and set apart from other investors. They too mutt scan the turbulent horizon of our financial and industrial life and do the best they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Busby Victory | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

...actors is their agility with the sliding boards. The eccentric rogues, for example, draw most of their laughs by means of expert and unpredictable twists and turns and leaps and hops. They however, would probably be funny in any circumstances, being a perfect team on the order of Mutt and Jeff...

Author: By E. W. R., | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/27/1936 | See Source »

...Handrahan, will again be in the lineup, and although John will not start in today's game as will Brother Joe, he is slated for almost certain relief work. Beside Joe, will be perhaps the most colorful player on the Green squad, hard-bitten, bulldog-jawed, Carl "Mutt" Ray, last year's honorably mentioned candidate for All-American honors at center, a 192-pound powerhouse who holds down the pivot position on the offense and backs up the line with bone-crushing tackling when Dartmouth plays defensively...

Author: By Skip Brown, SPORTS COLUMNIST, THE DALLY DARTMOUTH | Title: Veteran Eleven From Hanover Will Descend on Stadium as of Old to Continue Ancient Rivalry | 10/26/1935 | See Source »

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