Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ostia" cried posters on the walls of Mussolinized Rome. Patriotic Italians obeyed gladly, went down to Ostia at the mouth of the river Tiber. The thousands who did not have official tickets of admission to the area of goodview were urged by bayonets to herd themselves a mile up the beach. Punctually at the appointed hour, a speck accompanied by lesser specks appeared in the air. . . . Commander Francesco de Pinedo had completed his 26,000-mile, four-continent (Europe, Africa, South America, North America) flight in the Santa Maria...
Fred Kurd opened his mouth and, with his teeth, grabbed a marked bullet out of the air. The bullet had been fired from an ancient horse pistol...
...Wild West Show. "Do you suppose--do you suppose they'll have, real Indians?" My roommate is one of those cynical fellows. I said that there were more live Indians to be had since the others were dead or something equally significant. Which should have closed his mouth to further gaucherie...
...propels itself by opening and closing like an umbrella. This creature's interior is a dining room, playground and protectorate for as many as 300 little silvery fish. Unharmed by the host's poisonous tenacles and living on its killings, the parasite's swim in and out of its mouth at will...
...ladies, the most intriguing is Diane. "People were quite ready to describe her as stupid, but her mouth was so red that everything she said seemed intelligent to me." Other stories concern a Chinese curio hunt in which one of the most remarkable curios is a lady's virtue; a treasure hunt which comes near to being a civil war; a horse of Genghis Khan...