Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...initials A. S. D. stand for Arbitration, Security and Disarmament -keynotes of French foreign policy. In the Chamber of Deputies was made last week "a speech of Poincaré through the mouth of Herriot." The latter, alarmed at the recent Monarchical doings in Germany, delivered himself of a three hours' oration. He was working for peace- France's actions at Geneva proved that, (TIME, May 5) but he would never give up the security of his country while militarism was fostered on the other side of the Rhine...
Four men with keen senses assert that "Margery", the well known Boston medium, exudes a tangible, physical substance from her mouth. The world sits back with astonishment and, for all the explanation that has been given, may remain perplexed until doomsday. Doctor Dingwall, in Jordan Hall Saturday evening, stated the fact, but gave no explanation. That he and his colleagues are mistaken as to the actual existence of this substance is hardly probable, for it has been seen repeatedly in seances covering weeks. Granting, then, that it exists, what is its cause...
...Lost Lady. When the heavens fall and the eruption of eternity smothers the world, this department will probably be still protesting peevishly that straight character study cannot be reflected in the camera lens. For it is the words that come out of a man's mouth that define him, more exactly than all his grimaces and gestures. Willa Cather's A Lost Lady was a character study if ever one was written. The book had no further plot nor purpose. It told of a lovely, intense young woman who married an old and impoverished aristocrat of a small...
...deadly efficiency of the Japanese is, unbeknownst, giving the death-blow to a tradition of comic literature. The bow-legged English of the Oriental schoolboy has long held its place in the humorist's schedule. Whenever the public mouth seems inclined to relax to a comfortable position, a letter in pidgin English restores to it the contortion of lips which passes current for an appreciation of humor. Certain Japanese, with the connivance of Americans, are trying to teach in their schools English "as is" English...
Insulin. A new means of administering insulin (diabetes cure), through the mouth instead of hypodermically has been evolved. Tablets with a coating that does not dissolve until it enters the intestines preserve the insulin from destruction by the juices of-the stomach.-Dr. John R. Murlin, University of Rochester...