Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate Committee on Public Lands? Senator Spencer of Missouri (Senator Lenroot having resigned). On his first appearance Senator Spencer attempted to do some questioning of a witness but was called to order by Senator Walsh, Democrat of Montana, who objected to "words being put in the witness' mouth...
...Memel Convention was signed between Lithuania and the Powers. The Memel dispute involved the former East Prussian port of Memel and the mouth of the Niemen River, full control over which was sought by the Lithuanian Republic. Norman H. Davis, Manhattan publicist, acting as special agent of the League, provided the settlement. Lithuania gets Memel. Traffic on the river, which serves the commerce of Germany, Poland and Russia, is to be free. The Lithuanians pretended to object. Poland did object. Russia barked...
...supporting company is fairly adequate, though it occasionally mistakesi foaming at the mouth for historianism. The settings seem to have been gathered up from the ruins of the Grand Guignol Players...
...churches, clubs, societies, schools, colleges, universities, radio stations, municipal departments, rural organizations, industrial plants, department stores will cooperate in bombarding the people with a continuous blast of melody and rhythm-by voices, trained and untrained, in solos, in chorus, by all manner and combinations of instruments, mouth-organs, pipe-organs. There will be lectures on music, hundreds and hundreds of recitals and concerts, articles in newspapers and magazines, exhibits of musical books in libraries. If each and every citizen does not then realize that Music is a force to be reckoned with, it will not be the fault...
...forehead "grows higher and broader," the yellow-green eyes flash-the man speaks. Once Kerensky spoke for twelve hours without stopping. Senor Ibañéz, after seeing him, thought he could speak for 24 hours and not be in the least affected. Said he: "The Russian has a mouth like a codfish . . . and a voice like a cross between a megaphone and a trombone...