Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gong rings; Mike staggers to his corner, weary, bleeding. Through the ropes springs Mike's marcelled second with water-bucket, sponge, bottle, towel. Mike rests for a short minute while motherly hands wash red from his eyes and mouth, fan his wilting torso. Mike hears calm, sage advice delivered in a motherly tone. Again the gong rings and Mike's second, agile in spite of skirts, leaps back through the ropes. Mike, cheered, comforted, charges forth to battle...
...probably delayed during a storm at Faro Pete's Saloon. The character might well be stolen from Fannie Hurst. She is not so vivid as his famed "Call To Arms" figure which everyone remembers as the woman with her feet planted flat, her arms upraised, mouth wide in battle call to France. Mr. Davidson, born and reared in Paris, has breathed prim New England into his model...
...Baptist ministers and there has been a constant stream of Baptist ministers walking through my house for years.... I have never known one like Elmer Gantry. It [the book] was obviously written by Sinclair Lewis when he was in a rage. The author was literally foaming at the mouth...
...paper has the right to print of and concerning another the truth, whatever it may be. The law puts no bridle in the mouth of the truth. And so we claim here and shall try to show you that what has been printed of Mr. Sapiro in all of its real essence was the truth. . . . It is no libel to say truthfully of a man who is a Jew that...
...opening verse: Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine, and there are more than hints of more. Young Uldine, with her shiny scrubbed face, has been quoted as saying that flappers do not get their flapper ways from the Bible...