Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...youths were being passed from shoulder to shoulder along the crowd. Both were sunburnt; both grinned broadly. While his heart turned, in his mouth, to unpalatable dough, he watched them borne from the train sheds to the plaza. Helping to carry one of them was Adjutant General Charles Cox of Georgia. They were seated in a motor. To the one whom the Adjutant had carried, a huge silver cup was handed. "Jones," yelled the people. "Watts," they yelled...
Permit me very courteously to observe that Campobello Island is not at the head of the Bay of Fundy as declared in TIME of Aug. 31, Page 17. It is at the mouth...
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...England itself the strike was not so serious as in the Dominions because of the large number of unemployed seeking work. But it was bad enough. The ports of London, Southampton, Hull, Avon-mouth and Swansea were wholly or partly tied up. The strike was spreading to Bristol and Liverpool. Even some of the Channel steamers were compelled to cancel sailings...
...Peet, few are without their conception of the personal appearance of these able outfitters. They envision Rogers as a spindling little man, whose pathetic shanks, shrunken torso and desiccated arms, contrast oddly with the twinkling zest of his round impish face, the shrewd pucker of his mobile mouth; they picture Peet as his twin, in all respects identical. For such are the eloquent small figures that have long capered in the advertising columns of theatre programs and daily newspapers, accompanied by a jest, a clothing suggestion and the name of the firm. Last week they began to caper...