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Word: onomatopoeia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...often use impressive words like onomatopoeia...

Author: By F. C. L., | Title: The Composite Character | 10/31/1946 | See Source »

...word, which has variant spellings, is Hollywood onomatopoeia for lovemaking in the "Latin" manner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 11, 1944 | 12/11/1944 | See Source »

...members were all reading from different scores, raised a cacophonous din. Sour was the note from Maryland, where Robert Alphonso Taft withdrew in pique before the rambunctious invasion of Tom Dewey. Liberal Republicans in the East, to whom the name of Pennsylvania Boss Joseph N. Pew Jr. is pure onomatopoeia, made beckoning sounds to a strayed Democrat, Wendell Willkie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: Republican Keynoter | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

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