Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...became a showman twenty years ago in much the same fashion that he has now become a legionaire-by accident. Even during the solemn ceremony that involved the bit of ribbon he could not appear to be taking himself seriously. A short, genial little man, with a big mouth and eyes that seem always to be listening, he had the air of an elegant Hebrew comedian about to do a vaudeville turn. It was thus that he appeared before the famed David Warfield on the day that he entered the show business. Mr. Loew was at that time a furrier...
...years ago that Mr. Adams and his son paid a call on General Santa Anna of Mexico at Snug Harbor, Staten Island. From a bureau drawer the General produced "a little chunk of something resembling overshoeing." The guests beheld him place a piece of this substance in his mouth, chomp his jaws, smile. They dubiously examined the "overshoeing," which the General called "chicle" and said was the gum of the zapote tree. They too chomped, smiled...
...Roberts, as a representative of the press, may I ask which part did you personally prefer in The Ten Commandments? I think . . ." The grey-mustachioed gentleman removed from his mouth a long, black stogy, glared at his inquisitor. "Who," said he, "do you think I am?" "Why, Theodore Roberts, the movie actor," gasped the reporter. "You are mistaken, sir! My name is Cummins." Last week great grandfather Albert Baird Cummins, Senator from Iowa, for nearly two decades one of the greatest influences in the governance of the U. S. was stricken with heart disease, died suddenly. Theodore Roberts, merely...
Finally wash out the mouth and gargle with an antiseptic solution...
...teeth are clean and polished. The mouth is rinsed and disinfected. A good way to "wash your teeth?" Certainly! But who does not use a "dentifrice" instead...