Word: mouthfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rugby match at Marmande, France, between Marmande and Bergerac, a Marmande player nearly succeeded in strangling Beausoleil, the Bergerac captain. As Beausoleil was dragged off the field unconscious, his tongue hanging out, foam on his mouth, onlookers shouted, "Well done! Kill...
...astounding "Grande Catherine" of this orgy is a woman of 42. Her dark determined eyes seemed never to waver under police querying. When she had answered a question her straight almost lipless mouth shut in a thin, flat line. At her sumptuous estate in Boulogne, where she was arrested, she said disdainfully to the somewhat excited and strenuous investigators: "Here are my keys. You need not trouble to burst open my drawers and root in them like cochons." Even in jail she seemed undiscouraged. "My arrest, pouf! It is nothing," she said, "I work by American methods...
Other pollywogs, other pranks. The Maryland passed the Equator, arrived 30 miles off the mouth of the Guayas River, anchored...
...first conspicuous victory was greeted with Union-wide exultation, and curiosity as to this unknown U. S. ("Unconditional Surrender") Grant. Journalists glossed their ignorance with fantastic tales of Grant riding casually to battle, coat un buttoned, cigar in mouth. Immediately the hero was deluged with boxes of cigars -10,000 in quick order - and though he gave hundreds away, "having such a quantity on hand I naturally smoked more than I would have done under ordinary circumstances, and I have continued the habit ever since...
...consultation was held at the close of the second overtime period, and it was determined to play until a score came--what is called a "sudden-death" period. After about a minute of play Owen shook loose, wormed through the Blue line to the mouth of the net, and flicked the rubber past the eager stick of the Yale goalie...