Word: pucker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would seem that a very healthy tendency to consume more fruit is being officially discouraged. However, forbidden fruit somehow or other has a sweeter taste, unless some misguided individual has the bad luck to pocket a lemon, in which case his sly smile will rapidly turn to a pucker...
Jocularly Canadians were remarking that John Buchan's new title, Baron Tweedsmuir, "sounds like some new kind of suiting," but most of them were in a mood to greet indulgently the smallish, sharp-nosed, pucker-lipped Scot. Due to land at Quebec on Oct. 24 from the Empress of Britain, Lord & Lady Tweedsmuir were the prey of seafaring autograph hunters this week. Bandied merrily were the Scottish jokes which the brilliant historian, novelist and Governor-General is so adept at working in at a captain's dinner...
...haute cuisine, Frenchmen with gold francs would be tempted in droves across the Channel. Last week, with this in mind, the progressive Mayor of Blackpool had drummed up 28 landladies, was having them taught French, with French cooking to follow. First question and answer memorized by Blackpool's pucker-browed landladies...
...weary troopers in the thin platoons of Peace are haggard, hang-jowled "Uncle Arthur" Henderson, the down-&-out former British Labor Leader who is President of the down-&-out Disarmament Conference and small, pucker-browed Sir Norman Angell, an eminent pacifist lecturer who in 1929 attempted to clean up by inventing The Money Game...
...Secretary of State, Democratic ruler of The Bronx, Mr. McKee's next door neighbor and political mentor and the sole wedge by which the Farley-Roosevelt State machine might dislodge Tammany from control of the city. The night before Mr. McKee declared himself, reporters found little pucker-faced Louis McHenry Howe, the President's Confidential secretary, in the President's Manhattan home...