Word: mouth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the referee puts the whistle to his mouth this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock to open the 1938 season for both contestants, the Brown hopes will rise at the chance of beating the Crimson for the first time since...
Come Across (by Guy Beauchamp & Michael Pertwee; produced by George Buchar and John Tuerk with William A. Brady). Opening its eyes later than any theatrical season in a generation, 1938-39 otherwise clung to tradition, woke up with a bad taste in its mouth. Come Across is a tissue-paper "comedy-drama" offering English ideas of U. S. gangsters in an English version of U. S. slang. The scene is a London hospital where a mobster comes with a bullet in his chest and compels an unwilling surgeon to take it out by first kidnapping the surgeon's little...
...bleak Gull Rock, at the Shelburne harbor mouth, Alf Kenney had cause to marvel more. A monster tuna took his bait and for 4½ hr. he learned what it is like to be attached to an animated submarine. Back aching, arms numb, slim Alf Kenney stuck it out, killed his fish and when it tipped official scales at 864 lb., received congratulations on a new world record-13 lb. heavier than the North Sea tuna caught in 1933 by Mitchell Henry of England...
...moat by her mate; by shooting, after X-rays showed she would never recover from broken vertebrae; in Brooklyn, N. Y. Death came also to the U. S.'s only pangolin (TIME, Sept. 12). Cause: strangulation on a food morsel too big for its tiny mouth...
...turf and the Tribune's loudspeaker wires were quickly trampled to bits. Only those near the orchestra platforms could hear any music, and a competition among the 50 amateur bands was called off. No one minded. The young jitterbugs danced to their own mouth organs and to 10? saxophones, to no music at all, voicing the appalling floy floys, shim shams and swizzle-swipes which are the lingo of swing. Four hundred extra policemen marveled that no one was hurt. It was, in the words of Chicago Daily Newsman Gene Morgan, "the strangest manifestation of youthful exuberance perhaps ever...