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Word: pucker (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jack Worthing, Michael Redgrave alternates between dignity and degeneration, as he commutes between his country home and city apartment. Richard Wattis, his face, in an interminable, self-satisfied pucker, also has a dual identity, keeping the two separate with a bit more verve than Redgrave. Joan Greenwood and Dorothy Tutin are the befuddled fiances of the two slightly dishonest gentlemen. Both are ridiculously prim and appropriately fatuous...

Author: By E. H. Harvey, | Title: The Importance of Being Earnest | 4/11/1953 | See Source »

...Secretary's audience appeared willing to take it for what it was meant to be-a helpful reminder of the facts of life in the U.S. "This visit," suggested Germany's Rhein-Neckar Zeitung, "shows [all] nations with brutal clarity that it no longer suffices to pucker one's lips. We now must whistle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Time to Whistle | 2/16/1953 | See Source »

...many a new refinement to oldtime favor ites. There are Humpty Dumpties for a dime, giant elephants for more than $100, Teddy bears, now celebrating their 50th anniversary, that are chemically treated to keep them free of dust. Dolls do just about everything (eat, burp, nibble fin gers, frown, pucker lips, blow soap bubbles, wet, wail, walk, and recite verse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: The Christmas Stocking | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

...only child of a successful Spokane dentist and an accomplished pianist who wanted Pat to be musical too. "Up until the time I was five," says Patrice, "I suppose I led a perfectly normal life. But then I started to study whistling." Why? "I had a good pucker, I guess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Soprano from Spokane | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

...Teacher Kennedy could not have loved whistling so much, loved she not music more. It was she herself who suggested turning the pucker towards Puccini. One day she said to Pat's mother: "Eunice, this child has a God-given voice. She should give up whistling and study voice." Twelve-year-old Pat was willing, provided she could keep up other activities that interested her. These included playing football (she once tackled a boy on the concrete sidewalk and broke his collarbone), baseball (two stitches in her forehead after being hit with a bat), and careening down Shoshone Place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Soprano from Spokane | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

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