Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Left to breast the tidal wave publicly have been journalists. Minute is the editorial writer's audience, compared with the multitudes whom Townsend propagandists reach by word of mouth, pamphlets, speeches, club meetings. But last week three of the best & best-read columnists in the land jabbed at the rosily glittering Townsend bubble...
German wags tell that once, arm in arm, Hermann Wilhelm Göring, Paul Joseph Goebbels, and Adolf Hitler strolled for half an hour on Unter den Linden. Nobody recognized them because Herr Göring was in civilian clothes, Herr Goebbels did not open his mouth, Herr Hitler had his hair brushed...
...specimen of the Atlantic right whale (Balaena glacialis) disported herself in the grey winter water near the tip of Long Island. Fifty-four feet long, she was accompanied by her 38-ft. infant, which she paused now & then to suckle. The mother's great head was nearly all mouth, and the vast cavern between her jaws was curtained with hundreds of flat, flexible blades of whalebone. When she was hungry she sounded, swam with mouth agape through shoals of plankton (tiny sea organisms) until the whalebone sieve had collected a toothsome sludge which she licked off with her tongue...
Mime Enters has high cheekbones, a big mouth, straight black bangs, great vivacity. She is excessively reticent about her early life. She was born in New York City about 30 years ago, had a comfortable bourgeois childhood and developed an urge to paint. She had a job in the daytime but attended night classes at the Art Student's League under shock-headed John Sloan. Fellow students remember her as the girl that solemnly writhed and grimaced while drawing. When John Sloan praised her work she thought he could not be a good teacher, left his class, disillusioned. Because...
...George Gershwin: "Long head, shoe-box type. Profile extremely Hittite. Sarsaparilla coloring and a musical haircomb, blown out a bit over ears. Flat cheeks, ironed out, sweeping aggressively into bulging lip and chin. Unanalytical eyes beneath dramatic brows. Smugly aggressive mouth, insensitive, without dubiety. Good-humored, self-confident, able and limited...