Word: pucker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tannic acid (or tannin) is the leatherizing element in oak, sumach and other plants. It is tannin in tea which makes a strong infusion pucker the mouth...
...same old stereotyped parts in implausible plots. At any event, she is not just a simple German girl, she is a woman with considerable charm and magnificent stage presence. Under the husk of an artificial and assumed manner she may some day reveal something more than a pleasant pucker of the lips, a husky feminine bass voice, a pair of legs, and an engaging way of drawling "off-ten", "yesss...
...this age of noise there are still those who pursue the ancient art of whistling. Their fife-like tones can't be heard, but they pucker up their lips just the same. They are not trying to create music but to release emotion. They are voicing their low mentality and confessing their sense of defeat...
...weeks about the streets of Massillon, Ohio (pop: 26,475) clattered a two-horse buggy in which sat a pucker-faced little old man with wiry grey hair. Whenever his vehicle was stopped by red traffic lights or his horses veered off to graze at curb grass, the old man would stand up on the buggy seat and exhort passing citizens-workers from the foundries, the machine shops, the glass factories, attendants at the State Insane Asylum, farmers from Stark County-to vote for him as Republican nominee for Mayor. With the fervor of an evangelist promising heaven...
...church was celebrating its 80th anniversary. Through the congregation circulated the same respectable, soberly-clad gentlemen who take up the Maplewood collection every Sunday. But today, every now and then one of these gentlemen would pucker his lips and, discreetly yet unmistakably, whistle...