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Word: muttering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite his calm reception of the news, Colonel Phinizy was later heard to mutter into a glass of "Mah Confederate ancestry calls but within me sub Ab prefer mah Sheridans twenty miles away...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nannie Sheridan To Visit Harvard Soon | 10/11/1941 | See Source »

...when Pollock was 82 he ventured to write My dear young Frederick, adding later "Frederick really is growing up." He seldom failed to send his love to "your Lady." Justice Holmes had a sharp eye for ladies, was once known to stare after a pretty girl and mutter: "Oh, to be 80 again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Postman Rings Twice | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

...pounds of food a day, hears more complaints about the chow than a Congressman. By 7:45 they are pushing their yellow biplane trainers out of the hangars for the day's flying. It is still very, very cold as they start the motors, and they shiver and mutter as they catch the blast from the props...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Fledglings | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

...hampered aid programs and offered the Christian Front, the Klu Klux Klan, and the Bund a chance to strike a blow for the swastika here at home. These All Americans with their dupes and colleagues oppose further immigration on the grounds that those already here have increased unemployment. They mutter about our own racial purity and complain that this is a Jewish problem-that Palestine and Madagascar are good enough for the refuse of the Fuhrer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GATEWAY TO SHANGRI-LA | 1/29/1941 | See Source »

...crowd collected to stare, remained to mutter. A neighboring department store broke out a huge U. S. flag. Several young men climbed the fire escape to the floor above the German Consulate. A U. S. sailor wriggled down to the staff, slashed at the flag with a knife. Another sailor grabbed a fold, pulled. Nazi clerks leaned out to haul the flag to safety. The boys held on; the flag ripped across the swastika. The boys climbed down. Two riot calls brought carloads of police. The crowd cheered. The sailors were pinched. The building canceled the consulate's lease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Liberty Cabbage | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

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