Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge did not attend a performance of The Little Show, new revue. But a portly gentlewoman with a large handbag did attend, in an aisle seat. There is a joke in The Little Show about Calvin Coolidge at the insurance company meeting. The comedian says: "When he opened his mouth to speak, six moths flew out." When the lady in the aisle seat heard that, she clutched her handbag and said: "They have no right to say such things...
...much time to the agile Welshman as to their Socialist opponents. Bland, moonfaced Winston Churchill, Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer, whose modest suggestion of a fourpenny (8?) reduction in the tax on tea has been received by the electorate as very cold pie indeed compared to the Liberal mouth-watering promises of Lloyd George, was particularly bitter...
...Genghis,† and a sprinkling of Kublai.** But to U. S. architects and automotivemen, Albert is the most famed member of the Kahn family. Soviet Rus sia, also conscious of Albert Kahn, commissioned him last week to construct vast factories at Stalingrad, at the Volga River's mouth. A tractor plant, an automobile factory and a cotton mill will be the first units in the proposed industrial group...
...appeared. Georg was a tragically mercurial Judas. Georg Jr. was Johannes. Amalie, Elsa and Augusta were respectively Mary, Mary Magdalene, the Blind Woman. Adolf, the eldest, gave to the Christus a grave presence, a tenor voice of such reedy purity and pliability that the German tongue seemed, in his mouth, no longer one of the world's least lovely languages...
...clenched my hands and tried not to scream. ... I opened my eyes, and I saw. It was his [the doctor's] face. Think of it! Two eyes and a nose and a mouth, just as I had felt them all these years...