Word: mouthfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most famed citizen of Chicago is an enormous man, physically and by reputation. He speaks seldom and never loudly, with a mouth which is completely furnished with gold teeth. He lives quietly and motors with ponderous solemnity about his private affairs in an expensive automobile. Doubtless he will say only a few words at the Democratic rallies, but a few words will be enough. Grown impressively corpulent since his greatest day, tailored handsomely, loyally admired, Most Famed-Negro-Citizen ("Jack") Johnson of Chicago might well become, if properly coached, as potent politically as he once was pugilistically...
...flayed him for pursuing a com mon practice: that of allegedly accepting party contributions from commoners who were raised to the peerage during his term as Prime Minister (1916-22). Because this charge has been shrewdly ignored by Mr. George, a new one was started recently. By word of mouth it was alleged that his private purse has been swollen from his secret party fund...
Just four minutes and 25 seconds after Referee Sands had dropped the puck and scurried out of the way at the initial face-off, Willard Howard ocC, sliced through the porous Tech defense, dribbled to the mouth of the cage, and slipped the disk past the first of the two Riley brothers who guarded the sanctuary for Technology during the evening. Before the Engineers could recover, the second forward line, just inserted into the fray, worked the puck down the rink, and W. D. Wetmore '30 took a pass from G. C. Holbrook '30 to skid the puck into...
...Board of Education, a partial set of false teeth in Mayor William Hale Thompson's capable mouth, has orders to chew up Superintendent McAndrew. It refused to receive his statement. Whereupon Superintendent McAndrew silently collected his papers on his desk in the "trial" room, turned his back on the board and began to walk...
...Tagore, the horselike countenance of the Duchess of Marlborough, the several gay and wayward studies of Peggy Jean (Mr. Epstein's child). When they looked across the room at No. 21, they wondered what wild emotion caused the bronze woman to clasp her hands and open her mouth in so inane a fashion. Some of the sharper babbits decided that she was laughing at the companion works of Sculptor Epstein; then they looked at their catalogs and saw, "No. 21: Weeping Woman." They turned to the bronze face again. Slowly there crept into their minds the feeling that perhaps...