Word: mouthes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wonder Upton Sinclair can't get his book, Enemy in the Mouth, published. He still thinks of alcoholism in terms of "John Barleycorn," a term that went out, if I am not mistaken, shortly after the turn of the century. I bet that Sinclair still goes to temperance lectures on the Demon Rum and plays the ballad, Father, Dear Father Come Home With Me Now on the old piano roll...
...Seavey on the phone to ask for an appointment, and he just says, "Come up anytime. I'm always here." Go up to his office in Langdell and there he is, sitting at his desk, jacket off, vest unbuttoned, and one of a large collection of popes in his mouth. As Professor Zechariah Chafee has said, "When you go to Warren Seavey for help you know you will...
...Leader Clement Attlee smoked his pipe and doodled while the right-wingers, led by Heir Apparent Herbert Morrison and Heir Apparent II Hugh Gaitskell, pressed for outright expulsion. But Clem Attlee, the man who had backed the disciplining of Bevan in the first place, pulled the pipe from his mouth and made a surprise proposal: postpone expulsion and set up a committee to inquire whether Nye Bevan might not be brought into line with party discipline. The right-wingers fought, but lost. With Attlee voting for Bevan, the National Executive decided, 14 to 13, to stay Nye Bevan...
...none on his personal staff and he once put a sign outside his office: WOMEN FORBIDDEN. Yet Diem is also- indulgent and demonstrative, downs huge breakfasts of such dishes as stuffed cabbage, and sometimes at formal receptions he handles his chopsticks like a coolie, shoving bowl to mouth and shoveling. He likes to hunt (duck and tiger). He may erupt into sudden violence. Considering someone he dislikes, he will sometimes spit across the room and snarl, "dirty type...
...Hebrew, the fourth letter, Daleth is written Ψ. The Assyrian Daltu meant "door," or "jaws," the Greek Delta meant "mouth" of a river; the Hebrew Dal meant "door," "bucket," or "to draw water," the Assyrian Dalu meant "to draw water," and Dilutu meant "a bucket." The Luna constellation consisted of three stars arranged in a triangle, which could easily have taken the shape of both Daleth and Delta...