Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grand National in 1918 and 1919 and with nimble Jack Horner, U. S. horse who won in 1926. Hardly anybody noticed two other horses being led to the paddock. They were not feeling well. One of them had a stream of blood running out of his mouth...
...merely a prim balcony, had been pictured in the happy mind of the Harvard undergraduate as being itself for one exotic night a Mohammedan heaven, with all joys of the East offered for the vicarious happiness of the onlooker. The refreshing lotus was poised a moment at the mouth f the weary student, only to be snatched away even as his lips parted. For in the Cambridge Koran it is written; Basketball bloomers may come to Agassiz Hall, but never Oriental bloomers...
Pity the poor bootlegger, whose life is harried by occasional federal drives and less frequent local campaigns. Pity him when home, brew gains adherents, in spite of Mr. Volstead; but most of all, consider his lot when the very mouth he supplies turns to whisper against him. Of all those among whom he plies his nefarious trade, rumor has it that the student is most addicted to his wares; that the student should bite the hand that feeds him, or more strictly, act against the man that gives him to drink, is incredible...
While the bell swung and tinkled beneath Bella's placid, munching mouth it signalized that no other cow in all Austria gave so much milk as she. Last week President Hainisch braved the sad, brown eyes of Bella and took away her bell because he had had tidings of a cow named Maria, owned by one Herr Kraft of Graz. This rival cow,, this upstart Maria, has produced this year 2,400 gallons of milk and bettered the record of Bella by several foaming pails...
...opened his mouth this morning. Says he, "the examination was obviously designed to test, not understanding of the reading, but whether one had done the reading." Far better would it have been if the mouth of Ass No. 2 had been so stuffed with hay that no noise could have issued thence, for he accomplished nothing more than the admission; that he is one of that small, but ever present group who pass examinations through an understanding of reading they have never done...