Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...headfirst. . . . The time came for the porter to make up our berths. Seeing that all of them were made up with the head forward, I determined to be different, rode feetfirst, awoke in the morning with a heavy deposit of cinders from the open window in my eyes, ears, mouth, nose...
...American Society of Orthodontists in Manhattan, Elizabeth McDowell, professor of speech at Columbia University, declared that Franklin Roosevelt's broadcasting was of unusual quality because his mouth is "built for sound"-wide jaw, low, wide, not too flat palatal arch, a tongue as wide as the arch. Miss McDowell declined to describe Mrs. Roosevelt's oral acoustics...
...White House cameramen, Press Secretary Steve Early announced that in future no candid camera pictures of the President would be permitted. Reason: at the opening of the baseball season the President had to take great pains not to let a cameraman catch him popping peanuts into his mouth, was caught nonetheless and for several days the White House was besieged with letters saying that it was not dignified for the President to eat peanuts...
...candidate cleared his throat, opened his mouth to speak, then closed it again as a blank expression appeared on his face. The senior member of the committee stirred in his chair. He too cleared his throat, and the now silent group of scholars turned to listen...
There is a comedian named Bozo. Mere words cannot describe the pure gold that flows from his tongue sweeter than honey and more pithy than the cedars of Lebanon. Bozo is a character who must be seen to be believed. His mouth may be likened to the Carlsbad caverns and his voice to the fog horn of a Nantucket whaler. And there are innumerable Bozo's in the crowd who take almost childlike delight in bellowing wisecracks at the actors. We must confess that we ourselves were so so carried away by the spirit of the occasion that we emitted...