Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vice Chairman Plummer and Commissioner Thompson submitted affidavits; Rear Admiral Benson set forth his objections to the sale by word of mouth...
...Century dictionary I read as follows, "Gadfly. The popular name of sundry flies which goad or sting domestic animals. They are comparatively large, very active, voracious and bloodthirsty, with great powers of biting, the mouth parts being highly developed. They also have great powers of flight. The bite is deep and painful, often drawing blood, though not poisonous. In strictness, only the females are gadflies, the males being smaller and quite inoffensive, living on the juices of plants. There are more than a thousand species...
...Baltimore, a professor of Physics showed his class of Johns Hopkins students liquid air, took some in his mouth, blew out a jet of steam. The low temperature of the fluid, explained, caused it to evaporate in his mouth. Would any one else like to try the experiment? One Joseph Phillips, a sceptical sophomore, stepped to the platform. Instead of merely holding the liquified gases in his mouth, he raised high the beaker, swallowed at a gulp. In- stantly, he began to gasp, to gag, strangle. He was in grave danger, everyone saw, of being blasted by the expanding vapor...
Saturday evening in the White House finds the President, his mouth full of pins, poring over old Fashion Books "Just a touch of lace at the throat," he suggests to Mrs. Coolidge, "white fur wristlets to go with your hat, and a small cretonne bustle in the back would add distinction to the ensemble. But, oh Grace, where did you get that scrumptions scarl...
...men?these blithe barbarians nightly astound sober Manhattan. But the circus this year is different?for one supreme reason: the carnivora are gone. There are no wild animal acts. No sharply smiling lady makes small boys lose their peanuts when she puts her golden head in the lion's mouth; no clown breathes the naughty story he will not tell the crowd into the leopard's sullen ear, most earnestly hoping that the creature will not take offense. The baleful tigers, too, are gone. Many marveled at this. "Who," they asked, "has at last discerned that the interest attending...