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Word: shushings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1932-1932
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...green risers, the first story bright orange-yellow, the trim of the front door bright blue, the door green, the upper story red, white, green and blue, striped and smeared. She hung two big dummies against the . wall, painted a donkey, an elephant, seven jackasses, a sign "Speak gently, shush, KISS ME," a figure of blindfolded Justice saying "Oh. my!" in an attitude of dancing, a large stein of beer labeled "Oh, boy!." and the legend. "Don't you know you're being ridiculed?" Mrs. Warren's library includes a set of "The World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 3, 1932 | 10/3/1932 | See Source »

...Hiram Hamilton is chief engineer and whose factory is in Asylum Street, Hartford, will-besides continuing to make silencers for guns, motor exhausts, safety valves, air releases, in fact every kind of pipe which emits a gas-offer a consulting service in noise abatement. Chief abater will be "Dr. Shush," the Maxim trademark character, who looks like a caricature of Hiram Percy Maxim's uncle, the late explosive-making Hudson Maxim (1853-1927). But "Dr. Shush" is really Hiram Percy Maxim, noise's bogeyman. Remarkable have been the Maine family of Maxims. Hudson Maxim, who started business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Noise's Bogeyman | 1/4/1932 | See Source »

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