Word: pucker
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...Titus' farm is "somethin' like Communism. Nobody's got nothin', but everybody's workin'." Does he like the radio? "I don't hold with furniture that talks." Titus is anemic. If cut, he will not bleed; the wound will only "hiss and pucker." Says Allen: "Titus will be getting better when the other characters have dried up and blown away...
Progress. In Washington, D.C., a patent was awarded to Antonio Perelli-Minetti for an anti-pucker grape-juice product...
...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...