Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...being. They had to think up many ways of dramatizing the milk of human kindness that flowed in his heart. At great pains they brought Bryan Untiedt, Colorado boy who the Press headlined as having saved 16 children marooned in a snowbound school bus, to Washington to play a mouth organ for the Hoovers. No such dramatization is required by Franklin Roosevelt, but the same machinery still turns. Twelve-year- old Thomas Fitzgerald, of Ocean City, N. J., ill in hospital with lockjaw, received, for no reason that the Press could discover, a letter wishing for his early recovery...
...mouth washes in the world could not have made Dr. East's patient socially acceptable. Dr. East cured him by having the stricture which was causing the trouble...
...Chicago, Federal agents shot John Dillinger dead. Next day on Helena's Main Street (called Last Chance Gulch, when gold was first discovered there) that story passed up and down by word of mouth...
Then came the Revolution to plunge this young nobleman into obscurity overnight and drive him penniless to Paris, later to the U. S. A stranded emigre, his life apparently wrecked, he led a hand-to-mouth existence for five years by lecturing on astronomy at $3 a lecture. In 1923 he and a few other White Russian exiles pooled their resources ($600) and proceeded to build an airplane out of old automobile parts in a chicken-coop on Long Island. An able pianist. Sikorsky meanwhile attracted the attention of his fellow exile, Sergei Rachmaninoff, who helped raise $100.000 to start...
...British challenger. Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith, arrived in Manhattan last week, a few days ahead of his Endeavour which was being towed across the Atlantic by his Diesel yacht. With a stickpin burgee of the Royal Yacht Squadron in his necktie and a briar pipe in his mouth. Owner Sopwith said what he thought about the races and Endeavour...