Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...view of the prosecution is that all persons who disseminate by word of mouth or by published writings the doctrines of what the defendants call Communism, are liable to be prosecuted for sedition. . . . The defendants before me are not prosecuted because they are Communists. . . . The prosecution suggests that Communism, as it is understood and explained by these persons and their associates, is illegal because it involves three things: first, the overthrow of the constituted Government of the country and the established forms of Government by force; second, the creation of antagonism between different classes of His Majesty's subjects...
...even from the members of his own commission up to the time of sailing. Correspondents, eager for an official announcement, were ingeniously informed that "Count Volpi owes it to the American Debt Commission, as an act of deference, to inform it of Italy's proposals by word of mouth instead of through the medium of the press...
...Chief-of-Staff to Lord Kitchener, spoke for many when he said, quoting the late Marquis Curzon: "To my mind, the ugliest thing in the world is a gun, with one exception only-the howitzer. The howitzer resembles a toad squatting and ready to spit fire out of its mouth. Nothing more hideous could be conceived...
...alumni and faculty of the University of Wisconsin, the mouth of a gift horse is not, as it is for the University's regents, a proper subject for squeamish scrutiny. Since the regents resolved never again to accept "gifts, donations or subsidies from any incorporated educational endowments or organizations of like character" (TIME, Aug. 17), the alumni and faculty have held meetings, condemned the resolution, prepared...
...only 30-the youngest mayor ever elected there. An American Legion man, popular in his crowd, he has given the city a business administration, progressive and clean. He is an Elk, a Mason, a Redman, a member of the Modern Woodmen of America, with a slack, ready mouth, a touch of Irish in his nose, a touch of Scandinavian in his cheek bones, and a pair of spectacles. His name is Arthur E. Nelson...