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Word: toot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little French train rushed through the pines toward Valloire, modest neighbor of Cannes, bearing Peleus Chalfont, young U. S. expatriate in search of health. Cloppety-Clop. The same little train bore the pretty Bobbie Parsons and her too ancient husband George, un- pleasantly far from his native Missouri. The toot of a motor horn. Came drunken old Henry-oh with ribalt Mimi, the Duchess. World-weary pilgrims, they journeyed back through the hills to the Temple of Hercules, there to utter loose prayers. Someone answered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Ladies | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

...instead of Italian, climbed off the S. S. Leviathan. He answered news-gathers questions as though he knew they were perfunctory, called at City Hall because he was expected there, lunched at the Hotel Astor because he was hungry. He was not surprised that New York did not toot its horns at him and get wildly excited. It was raining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Passenger Levine | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

...team the Chester Conklin-George Bancroft combination has a flying start. They play one another off so well that even the antiquated engine, the "Isobel", has to take a back seat, and "Isobel" has captivated her audience as well as her engineer in a case of "love at first toot." But while Conklin and Bancroft are not always funny, they are always fast in a brand new comedy background, namely the railroad field which seems to have infinite possibilities, especially when this pair are out to make a run. Indeed, these two comedians seem to be out to undo...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

...harder to toot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West of Tipperary | 2/23/1925 | See Source »

...tutor two tooters to toot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West of Tipperary | 2/23/1925 | See Source »

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