Word: mouthfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Citizens. Kansas City, Mo., is the larger and more potent of the twins through no geographical advantage, but because of its citizens. They got out and hustled in the '60s to bring the railroad bridge across the Missouri below the Kaw's mouth instead of above. Later they were idealistic as well as industrious. While Armours packed beef, and Peets made soap, and Ridenours and Bakers prospered with groceries, an Indiana contractor named William Rockhill Nelson came to town and started a newspaper, the Star. He campaigned for parks, boulevards, better residential architecture. He got public baths built...
...deep; in its bottom were five feet of water. Standing in this, Edward West yelled for help. As he did so, his feet sank slowly into the mud and the water rose slowly along his neck, up his chin. At the end of an hour, the water reached the mouth of Edward West. Unable to shout any more, in a few minutes he would be unable to breathe. As he waited for a slow drowning, Edward West saw the face of one George N. Lyman at the top of the narrow hole. George Lyman lowered a ladder, Edward West climbed...
...shepherds' communistic conversation caused certain punctilious critics to condemn the performance as presented in a consecrated house and one which had, incidentally, never been used for morality plays in the middle ages. Poet Masefield replied: "Would you have the shepherds talk about foot and mouth disease?" The play was accordingly produced with accompanying music by Gustav Hoist, with costumes designed by Charles Ricketts...
...Fundamentalists were apparently in sufficient majority to achieve victory in the things which lay nearest their hearts and Bibles; they could not, however, expect to work their wills upon every issue. They did not try to do so : the conference opened two weeks ago like a lion's mouth and closed last week like a lamb...
...years ago a meagre, slight dress maker, she crouched with pins in her mouth at the feet of a fat woman. The client was standing on a low fitting-stool, and from her rotund torso hung the drapes of a negligee that stubbornly would not seem stylish. Dressmaker Lane Bryant sat back on her heels and studied the paunchiness; she stood up and walked meditatively around it. She saw where she could alter the hang, and, stooping over, with swift fingers pinned folds here, there. The negligee fit smartly. Lane Bryant slipped it off her customer; basted it; stitched...