Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week as his car nosed slowly through the crowded streets of St. Malo in Brittany. Suddenly a total stranger stepped on the running board of M. La Chambre's car, jerked open the door, leaned in and slapped M. La Chambre twice across the mouth. "I was a manifestant on Feb. 6." the stranger shouted, "and you were only an assassin." Then he pushed his card into M. La Chambre's hand, muttered "I await your seconds," and made...
When Nurse Keislich showed eagerness to go on with the details, the presiding Justice reproved her. Said he: "My dear Madam, you have teeth in your mouth to clamp down on your tongue...
...taxi-driver who had taken the third ransom note to "Jafsie" Condon and from Condon's own recollections of the intermediary "Johns," a Washington cartoonist was able to make for the Department of Justice sketches of the criminal's face: sharp nose, flat cheeks, small mouth, pointed chin...
Bruno Richard Hauptmann fitted the image of the Lindbergh kidnapper almost to a T. He had the flat face, the pointed nose, the small mouth. He weighed 180 lb. He had worked in The Bronx lumber yard whence came the scantlings in the kidnapper's ladder. He was, indeed, a carpenter. Under the floor and in the walls of his garage was found $13,750 more of the ransom money. The taxi-driver remembered him in a minute. "Jafsie" Condon made a "partial" identification. Handwriting experts agreed that the lettering in the ransom notes unquestionably matched samples of Bruno...
Because of the publicity police were loath to "rubber-hose" Prisoner Hauptmann's story out of him. But the gentler method of keeping him awake, nagging him with questions for 48 hours brought small results. The stolid, 35-year-old Teuton soon closed his mouth tight. His shocked wife Anna, who apparently knew nothing of her husband's finances, got him a lawyer, but Hauptmann refused to see him. Then she got him another...