Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jeffers, who lives on a promontory at the mouth of the Carmel River, near Monterey, Calif., draws all his imagery from the world about him?cormorants, mustangs, seagulls, corposant hill-fires, barking seals, giant redwood trees, the good and evil winds of heaven, Indian spirit-gods moving by night, mystical wind-torn cypresses, condors, vultures, flowers and seaweeds, soaring California mountains, the illimitable bosom of the Pacific, the Pacific groundswell, ponderous granite boulders, vast shore plains, the unthinkable bottom boundary of the oceans. He hurls his images or bites them out; he rumbles, casts spells, croons, soothes, claps out thunder...
...accustomed to doubting TIME?it has for me an absolute value in spite of Einstein. But one of your news items caused me to raise my eyebrows, open my mouth and give forth a faint screech. The item reads: "As Heidelberg is occupied by French troops, the funeral procession was deprived of any military pomp" (TIME, Mar. 16, Page 11). Heidelberg is my Alma Mater. I studied there from 1918 to 1921. To my knowledge, no French troops ever were stationed there; the nearest they came was Ludwigshafen on the left side of the Rhine...
Crews X, Y, and Z rowed from the Newell Boathouse to the mouth of the basin in their workout...
...Eminence Cardinal Maffi is 67 years of age. Like the Pope, he has a hobby- Science, in which he is extremely well versed. In appearance, he is a typical Romano- high forehead, heavy overhanging brows, full mouth, quantities of white hair which was once jet black. His ideas are modern, too modern for some of his followers. Not long ago, he proposed at his own expense to erect a statue to Galileo, famed scientist, equally famed as a heretic. Pisa went mad. Nevertheless, he is extremely popular and is known as the "War Cardinal" because he advocated a fight...
This item related how a woman, Katherine Puree by name, had entered an Automat, procured a sandwich, eaten the first half of it with impunity. As she began to chew the second half, she felt something in her mouth that seemed to be moving, independent of the action of her teeth and tongue. She screamed, spat vehemently, alarming many nearby customers of the Horn & Hardart Co. When the object she ejected passed her lips it bit her, causing her lip to bleed. A curious insect -or reptile -about a quarter of an inch long, badly mangled by Miss Puree...