Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...microphone at the first World's Series baseball game, is now revealed. All Broadway and showbusiness knew him anyway as actor and producer of Sally, Irene, and Mary and Honeymoon Lane. To the public at large he is just another theatrical producer, fortunate in his word-of-mouth advertising. His show is much like his earlier shows; sweet and swift and aimed at the simple public rather than the shrewd. It is all Manhattan life in tinsel musical comedy caricature. The obstreperous Ray Dooley (Mrs. Bowling) makes parts of it hilariously amusing with her squalling childlike tactics. There...
...follies of democracy are universally admitted, and there is nothing new to be said about them". Such are the words which Thucydides put in the mouth of Alcibiades some 400 years before the Christiamera. And yet it would seem that in this case the Athenian historian was wrong and that there is something new to be said about the virtues and the vices of what has been called the most glorious of political fallacies; for tomorrow night at 8.15 o'clock in Symphony Hall, two modern philosophers will debate on whether democracy is or is not a failure...
...days before publicity because a business and before notoriety became as interesting as fame, popular imagination was fired by ballads or sagas on legends that passed from mouth to mouth. Now that pink newspapers and catchy captions have taken upon themselves the task of transmitting popular legends at length, the real digest of the news is broadcast in single words and short phrases. Thus Col. Lindbergh's exploit of last spring has become included in all its glory in the monosyllable...
...very amusing. It did not take much thought to deduce that there would be frothing at the mouth in Washington when that story was read...
...daughter of one of the leading tribesmen, a girl of 16 or 17, undertook with great zest the task of instructing me in the vernacular. We would sit side by side for hours and a hundred times she would touch my eye, nose and mouth and each time I would have to repeat the native word...