Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...muzzle of the revolver in his mouth and fired. Several newspapers were in the room, including a copy of the Daily Mail."-The London Daily Mail...
...caught starting a war, and it is right that France, the sinless nation, should cast the first stone. But still less do I love that intolerance in our own political thought which makes us unable to contradict a gentleman, Senator though he be, without foamings at the mouth and manifestings of his (the Senator's) inner vileness to the sun. HEBARD PAINE '25. January...
...Beggar's Opera" took London by surprise and fifty years later it was still a favorite theme for polite dispute. The occasion on which Johnson coined this mouth-filling dictum is memorable for another reason; -- the attentive Boswell for once disagreed with his master's defense of the play, and declared "the gaiety and heroines of a highwayman very captivating to a youthful imagination", and a temptation which "it requires a cool and strong judgment to resist". Boswell was not alone in his brave opposition; no loss a figure than Edmund Burke "thought the literary merit of "The Beggar...
...have no desire to sit on any platform with Admiral Sims, retired, whose best service to the American Navy was his retirement from it. I would suggest that when he is done shooting off the only weapon he is expert at--his mouth--he be escorted to the Cunard or White Star dock and given an opportunity to follow the trail and example of his ante-type, Benedict Arnold...
...hollow of the cheek. It is strange enough too, to see, an honorable gentleman leaning back in his tilted chair with his legs on the desk before him, shaping a convenient plug with his penknife, and when it is quite ready for use, shooting his old one from his mouth, as from a popgun, and clapping the new one in its place. I was surprised to observe that even steady old chewers of great experience are not always good marksmen...