Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opened-mouth Freshman was being shown around the Yard on the second day after his arrival by his cousin, the Senior. Presently they found themselves before the Widener Library where the following conversation took place...
Died, Gaston Menier, 79, French Senator and chocolate tycoon; in Chateau de Noisiel, his estate near Paris. In 1896 he bought for $160,000 Anticosti Island, big as Connecticut, at the mouth of the St. Lawrence, "commuted" to France in his yacht, was feudal overlord of 500 families until the island was sold...
There was a good reason for steel's poor showing. Buyers were using the inventories they collected last spring when the steelmasters were so loudly resigning themselves to a nation-wide strike. Meantime business receded, and hand-to-mouth buying barely kept the mills rolling...
Life a la Henri is one of those books that has a definite physical effect on the reader. C. M. Doughty's famed Arabia Deserta, for example, parches the tongue. Life a la Henri makes the tongue hang out, the mouth water...
...from head to foot in chromium-plated steel armor, Alpha sat on a specially constructed dais with its cumbrous feet securely bolted to the floor, stared impassively over the knot of newshawks and store officials waiting for the first demonstration. The creature had a great sullen slit of a mouth, vast protuberant eyes, shaggy curls of rolled metal. In one mailed fist Alpha clutched a revolver...