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Word: trunkful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...SARATOGA TRUNK - Edna Ferber-. Doubleday, Doran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Two for the Show | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

...Since a pilot's abdominal muscles are strained when he leans forward in the cock pit, they must be developed. One exercise starts with a sitting position. The cadet bends forward obliquely, turning his trunk. Another consists of jumping with feet apart, touching the right toe with the left hand, and vice versa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pilot Muscles | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

...easily explained was a curious collection found in Florrie's trunk and in various places in the house: a package labeled "Arsenic-Poison for cats," three bottles with arsenic in them, a rag and a handkerchief impregnated with arsenic, other lethal odds & ends which doctors said were enough in sum to poison 50 people. Florrie was convicted, sentenced to be hanged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Cat Woman | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

Dumbo is a taupe-colored, blue-eyed baby elephant whose outsize ears move the prima donna .elephants of his mother's circus troupe to call him a "butterfly with a trunk." When he trips on his ears during the elephant act, knocking down a pyramid of elephants and demolishing the Big Top, he is exiled to the circus Siberia: a small part (diving from a burning building into a net) in the clowns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 27, 1941 | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

...vigorous new Disney character, Dumbo discovers what his ears are good for-flying. This time he takes off from his window high in the burning building like an angry dive-bomber, turning, banking, looping the loop, and finally machine-gunning the other performers with peanuts sucked into his trunk from the vendor's cart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 27, 1941 | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

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