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Word: awfulness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tail in the face of her mate until he sprang with fang and claw, snarling, whirling. The giraffes, a bull and two cows loved daintily, with acute tremblings. Lions "laughed and kissed in their delight." Then "I heard the song of the ape-man . . . [it] resounded in powerful alternations, Aw-Aw-Aw-H-u-u-uh, as tremendous as the lions' roar. It was the song of primitive life, the thunderous speech of nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wild Life | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...Aw, whaddya wanna do, sing 'Sonny Boy?'"That is Broadway's latest wisecrack to victims who complain unduly, or to friends grown maudlin in their cups. In England, "Sonny Boy," a super-saccharine ballad of child love introduced by Blackface Singer Al Jolson in his latest sound film, is still new and popular. More, it has become a Conservative campaign song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Stanley Boy | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

This was the second time that Hero Lindbergh was linked in print with a beautiful girl. Of the "link" with Blanche Satchel, Manhattan show girl, Hero Lindbergh remarked: "Aw, shucks, there's nothing to that" (TIME, Oct. 8). As far as is known, he has made no public remarks on the subject of Miss Hawes. The Hawes family are Democrats. Hero Lindbergh came out last week for Nominee Hoover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Diver & Dancer | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

...with a fractured limb, my time was quite valueless, and shortly after having told my wife the story of the Northern salesman telling the Southern "cracker" that if he fed his hogs corn they would fatten up in one-half the time, to which the cracker had rejoined, "Aw, what's time to a hog," I happened to ask my wife "what time it was" she replied, "aw what's TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 10, 1928 | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

...Carroll stood up smartly with an American flag, all the other pupils raised their right hands in the trig salute that they had been taught to use. Not so William Albertson, who merely waggled one grimy paw. Said Teacher Carroll: "William Albertson, you salute that flag!" Smirked William Albertson: "Aw, I did salute it, didn't I, good enough?" Dullards sniggered, smart alecks frowned, Teacher Carroll made her face look stern. "You come with me, William Albertson, right now," said she. Out in the hall she seized William Albertson, shook his slouching shoulders with vigor. William Albertson, ruffled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Education | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

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