Word: mouthfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...takes his stance behind him, elbows rivals for the vacancy out of the road, barks his order at the waitress, pulls TIME out of his pocket, and then for 15 minutes glues his eyes to the page while his right hand automatically pokes grub into his mouth to be gulped down in hunks...
...Poet. Edwin Arlington Robinson ? lean, stooping figure, dark mustache, dreamer's forehead, thinker's mouth, soft hat, cane, shuns women and public speaking ? came to fame in 1905 when Theodore Roosevelt, then President, reviewed The Children of the Night, which Mr. Robinson had written in a barn at Gardiner, Me. Mr. Roosevelt secured him a position in the New York Customs House. He is now employed by Ledoux & Co. (ores) in John Street, Manhattan. On his 50th birthday (1919) a symposium of authors acclaimed him in the New York Times as greatest living U. S. poet. Twice since...
Scarcely a person left the academy, however, before he finally opened his mouth. He said it would be a long time before he would see the Philadelphians again, "and, incidentally, hear you," he added. He marveled that the newspapers should have divined that he would never return, since he had never had such a thought himself. He raised a fresh storm of applause by saying he and his men had, he believed, succeeded "as well as is humanly possible." He lamented that his Orchestra had not been sent to exhibit its excellence in Europe...
Travis B. Smythe, 26, Thornton, Tex., oil refinery chemist, found the fumes of boiling benzine "rather pleasant," not realizing that they were attacking his spleen, causing him pernicious anemia, and hemorrhages of his mucous membranes. Blood has been oozing from his mouth, nostrils, intestines, bladder; and his organs for manufacturing new, replacement red blood cells have not been functioning properly. In Baylor Hospital, Dallas, Tex., last week he borrowed blood for the 42nd time in six months. With three arm veins already destroyed by repeated blood transfusions and realizing his futility, he said: "I'd be a quitter...
Christ is shown 1) curing the boy Mark of his lameness, 2) restoring the sight of a blind girl, 3) exorcising the seven devils from the body of Mary of Magdala, 4) causing Peter the Fisherman to cast a hook and pull up a fish in whose mouth is wedged a silver coin, with which Jesus renders unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, 5) quickening the corpse of Lazarus, 6) saving the Woman Taken In Adultery with the admonition, "he that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone," 7) driving the money changers...