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Word: toot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last month, Freddie's column casually mentioned an obscure and unappetizing Los Angeles weekly called Hollywood Nite Life. It was nothing but a "brash, often spiteful publication," he wrote, and its swart and droopy-lidded publisher, one Jimmy Tarantino, struck him as a man who liked to toot his own horn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Exit Blushing | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

...bumblebee, tormented by a boogie bass; 3) Johnny Appleseed, advised by a Guardian Angel in a coonskin cap; 4) Donald Duck, Joe Carioca and Organist Ethel Smith in the throes of a samba; 5) an apotheosis of Joyce Kilmer's Trees; 6) a young tugboat named Little Toot which disgraces and redeems itself; 7) a tall-tale, free-for-all finale about Pecos Bill, his horse Widow-maker and his gal Sluefoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 7, 1948 | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

...after-effects of the tactical toot set in, other parliamentarians felt ashamed. Last week the Diet 1) finally passed the coal bill; 2) agreed that further deliberations should be conducted with "extreme self-containment"; 3) adopted a resolution sponsored by the women Diet members prohibiting the sale of liquor in the Diet restaurant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Tactical Toot | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

Once, when someone asked whether his religion ever interfered with his banking, Sanders exploded: "Christianity isn't worth a tinker's toot if it won't work! The place to find out if Christianity works is at your desk. I apply it to life as I live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Banker in the Pulpit | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

...Atlanta, state legislators learned that an old law required locomotives to go toooooooot-toooooooot toot-toot when approaching Georgia grade crossings, brought it up to date and in conformity with the laws of adjoining states by authorizing toooooooot toooooooot toot-toooooooot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Mar. 17, 1947 | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

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