Word: mouthes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that Joe McCarthy thinks that Albert Einstein is "an enemy of America" [TIME, June 22]. There are quite a few of us over here doing some fighting in the real sense of fighting Communism while the Senator is "fighting" it with his mouth...
...daughter. I am the son of Andrew Allen. My grandmother Stephens was the sister of the late L. Hicks and Jonathan Hicks, of Middle Creek. I married the daughter of Bud Handshoe, of Hueysville, Ky. Her mother was the daughter of Hi Fitch. The deceased George Fitch, of the Mouth of Brush Creek, was her uncle. A few words to mothers: If your son happens to get in jail, I will see that he has good treatment, plenty to eat and a decent place to sleep...
...mouth Burgundian songs...
...political speeches he talked scornfully over the heads of his audience. He marched into a room, four-square as a quartermaster, his eyes leveled in search of adversaries. The pockets of his tweedy clothes were stuffed with notes and documents, his hard fighting head was bursting with brains, his mouth crammed with literary fancies and rigid dogma, and his big chin raised good-humoredly for blows. A member of the old Liberal Party, he pitched his speeches on too high an intellectual level for success; but the precise malice of his rhymes, directed at the Tory aristocracy, delighted everybody...
...world it will inherit through the lucent membrane of its natal sac. There is the grave pavane of the beruffled nudibranchs, tiny fish that swirl among moving fronds like bright dancers in an oriental court. And there is the fish that walks, the fish that is nothing but a mouth, and the fish that shills for a poisonous anemone, luring other fish to their destruction; not to .forget the oddly compelling sight of a giant mother turtle, still, strong and impenetrable, laying her hundreds of grey little eggs in the warm sand by night...