Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...runs the Greek legend. Lately Italian archeologists, probing the sand dunes near the ancient port of Ostia at the mouth of the yellow Tiber, turned up a marble statue of Perseus, a curly-haired youth clutching his dreadful trophy. The statue bore some resemblance to the Hermes of Praxiteles, was apparently carved in the Graeco-Roman period...
...Anderson, but the new character he had drawn for the first time looked even better. Henry's personality appealed to him. The very name somehow seemed ideal. Artist Anderson concentrated on Henry, perfected the simple lines of his domed head, big ears, full cheeks, skinny neck. Eyes, nose & mouth, indicated by circles and dots, formed an expression of sublime self-assurance, competence, unconcern. Henry, according to his maker, was not really bald; he Jiad just had all his hair shaved...
...Heckled by Pharisees and Herodians, Jesus countered: "Why call me with your mouth, master, when ye hear not what...
Apparently unharmed, "he described his feelings: "I lifted the beaker to my lips. Immediately I felt a burning dry sensation in my mouth and then I could feel nothing. First my mind became excited and impressed with a feeling of crisis...
...adept in saluting the sophisticated ladies of the French court, less solicitious about the brewing of his tea, perhaps more brusque and profane at the council table. And then a soldier must be a man who is willing to throw thousands of his gallant countrymen into the cannon's mouth to test the efficacy of a strategic principle. Mr. Arliss's "Wellington" would hardly have been able to do this. He would have thought, in his whimsical fashion, of the widows and orphans