Word: mouthfuls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...submitted a slim, blue-covered booklet containing the testimony of twelve men & women who had survived Russian slave labor camps. To read and interpret their story, the A.F.L. picked a veteran German socialist, tiny Toni Sender, whose renowned taunts of Nazi bigwigs had earned her the epithet "Mrs. Big Mouth." Among the case histories she had gathered...
Despite shortages, the 1948 food production of the home islands was slightly above the 1931-40 annual average. But the population has grown still faster so there was less food for each mouth. Before 1937 Japan grew 80% of its own food. Sugar from Formosa and soybeans from Manchuria made it almost completely self-sufficient within its empire. With only the home islands, it can provide 70% of its prewar level of 2,160 calories a day. The growing population will make it very hard to push self-sufficiency in food above...
...from Texas named Jack Teagarden waited at the gangway to say hello, asked to shake hands with Louis. Teagarden, soon to become a great name in jazz himself, remembers his first look at Louis: "[He] wasn't much to look at. Just a little guy with a big mouth. But, man, how he could blow that horn!" Louis soon found that his horn had been heard all the way to Chicago: Joe Oliver sent for him and in 1922 Louis went north-in a land just getting used to flappers, bathtub gin, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Warren G. Harding...
Princeton picked up a fluke goal in the middle period when a loose puck bounced off the stick of Jack Carman in the Crimson goal mouth and rolled past goalie Phil Clark...
Cabot has discovered what most local gentry already know. A suitor never looks a gift-horse in the mouth, a Radcliffe girl in the face, or a sock in the heel. Both knitting and digging develop the wrong muscles...