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Word: totting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TOT HURLED OFF SPAN. "The SUnshine streamed in-Gail is getting well." Jujitsu & Tears. In a nearby column was a "blonde Portia" who was her own lawyer in her suit against her father and stepmother. They wanted to "railroad" her to an insane asylum, she said, purportedly to get their hands on her cash. One day she used jujitsu on an opposing lawyer; the next day she "became the traditionally soft woman-tears and all ... broke down . . . and wept freely . . . several jurors and spectators wept with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Back to Abnormal | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

...must, he meets the stern but just sheriff, a short jail term, and, of course, the banker's daughter-who seems willing to wait for him. The sheriff (Ward Bond) gets temporary custody of Baby, a foresighted arrangement, since with all the sentiment lavished on him, the tot is clearly going to grow up to be a very tough citizen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 7, 1949 | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

...same day Grifiln arrived in town to begin his new series, Dean Bender, Professor Crane Brinton, and Lyons delivered a rebuttal tot he Tribune's charges over WHRV...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tribune Reporter Returns to Hunt University 'Reds' | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

Heath's arrangement is to take each slobbering tot onto his knee, ask it what it wants for a present, listen enraptured to its answer, mutter something about "seeing to it", ask the attendant mother if the little dear has been a good child during the year, and finally give it a funny book. Unfortunately the funny books ran out long ago, so all Heath can offer is a cheery laugh and a pat on the back...

Author: By Jack Spratte, | Title: Harvard Men Work as Santas in Local Stores | 12/14/1948 | See Source »

Malamikete de las nacjes Kado, Kado, jam temp' está! La tot' homoze in familje Konunigare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Vivu! | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

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