Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hereafter, when I am in the North or East, and the name of Mississippi is mentioned, I can only keep my mouth shut and blush. The dignity of the State, as well as the national Congress, is something that ought to be considered by voters. But you, who can see us from an objective point of view, do be kind to us when...
...Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! A sabre crashed on the assassin's head. His next shots went wild but the first had done their work. Minister Barthou clutched at his arm. King Alexander jerked, stiffened, then crumpled and slid to the floor of the car. Blood streamed from his mouth, oozed through his chest...
...told of having gone up to the car after it stopped, and of having been ordered back by the driver, a man with a shotgun. The milkman said a woman was in the back seat, her hands tied and her mouth taped...
...BUMMEL is what Germans call al fresco funmaking. Below, with a half-consumed banana in his mouth, is Bruno Hauptmann, with some Hunter Island friends on a bummel. None of his circle was handier at collecting bits of driftwood, none could roast sausage nearer to a turn, none could play the mandolin or sing with greater virtuosity. An Irish park guard recalled that he was also a great horseshoe pitcher. Hauptmann, the Outdoor Man, was a good hand at inshore sailing. He owned a canoe which he kept at nearby City Island . Another boatsman of the vicinity was Dr. John...
...spectators disagree most violently, however, is in the matter of the distance of the spectacle from their individual points of vantage. If all the reports were to be credited, the meteor, or parts of it would be found in Sebago Lake, Maine; in Pine Hills, Plymouth; in the mouth of Boston Harbor; two hundred yards from the shore at Scituate; and among other places, in the back yard of a gentleman on the south shore...