Word: mouthfulls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henry Morgenthau, who as Secretary of the Treasury gets blamed for a lot of taxes but is himself a middle-aged taxpayer, spoke another unpopular mouthful. Urging stiff postwar taxes to retire the national debt (now $231,000,000,000), the 53-year-old Secretary said: "I think people of...
Kit was wandering around the garden with a cloth to her mouth. She was bleeding in the gums and all her teeth loosened . . . and she was partly hysterical. And all the chickens were up in the trees flapping their wings which sort of added to the unreality. Paula, (10), was...
Herbert Fleishhacker, 71-year-old San Francisco banker, tossed peanuts to the animals in the zoo named after him (where, in 1936, the chimpanzee squirted him with a mouthful of water), suddenly fell into the hippopotamus pool. Fleishhacker landed in nine feet of water, was rescued before he rolled under...
Columnist Walter Lippmann forsook foreign affairs and domestic politics for a moment last week to deliver a pep talk to the U.S. businessman. And he said a mouthful.
To many a worried citizen these words seemed a wise mouthful. Equally sound seemed Lippmann's criticism of Franklin Roosevelt's criticism of the press. The President, said Lippmann, has complained that the press is uninformed, therefore unqualified to speak. But if the press is ill-informed, the...