Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about, the most contented man in the Capital. No less contented is his wife, daughter of one of Nashville's first families, who now can fulfill her social ambition to sit with him above the salt at Washington's official dinner parties. And "Joe" Byrns, from whose mouth a cigar is rarely missing, seldom buys White Owls or Portinas as he used, to, for the world is only too glad to present the Speaker of the House with fine cigars. For the whole U. S. and its representatives in Congress, gangling Joe Byrns has a warm place...
...accident or design, Lawyer Berthon, marking his points slowly with outstretched forefinger, suddenly found it in the mouth of one of the babies and cried "ouch!" In London this made the headline-of-the-week in Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express: BABY BITES LAWYER AT FRENCH SPY-GANG TRIAL. In Paris tender newshawks reported gushingly upon the infant and how it had just cut four milk teeth...
Last week the trial of a German-born Clevelander, too simple to keep his mouth shut or his pencil still in Naziland, furnished the world its first glimpse of the super-secret workings of Adolf Hitler's dread Volksgerricht or "People's Court." "As I stand at my window, seeing marching columns of Storm Troops," jotted down Simple Richard Roiderer in a notebook before his arrest, "I think to myself what slaves they are. A slavish loyalty to a bad cause and a bad leader! They represent the qualities of sadism, perversion and homosexuality that are misnamed...
...Later she heard that on his deathbed her lover had babbled a verse which began on a new note of hope. For 20 years Naomi wondered if there had been something in this unfinished poem to bring them together again. Playwright van Druten's answer comes from the mouth of a tuberculous young genius (Burgess Meredith) who visits the Jacklins' home to look at their pictures, rages against the folly of war, is stricken by one of his mysterious headaches. In a trance, he echoes the dying poet's feverish appeal for Naomi's forgiveness, finishes...
...restaurant at Lynbrook, L. I. where he catered to Morgans, Vanderbilts, Roosevelts. They would let him have space on the ground floor of their Maison Franchise for the finest French restaurant in the U. S. In the 40 years since his first Crepes Suzette melted in the mouth of Edward VII, then Prince of Wales, Henri had known no greater event than the opening of Cafe