Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have always respected them. We love France, but we want her to be respected. ... In the old days no smoking was allowed in postoffices, and cigars had to be left in the entrance hall, but today you can go to the postoffice with your pipe in your mouth. ... In those days a deputy would call on the prefect of police with his hat in his hand, while today the subprefect meets the deputy at the railroad station and carries his bag. We Alsatians don't like that. It puts politics above the machinery of the state...
...turn in the Youthful Stakes, run at Jamaica fortnight ago, Psychic Bid, of Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane's Brookmeade Stable, went wide. Swart little Jockey Dominick Bellizzi tugged desperately at his 2-year-old's left rein. The bit slipped through Psychic Bid's angry mouth. Jockey Bellizzi went flying from his perch, hurtled into the dust. Hoofs struck and crushed his crumpled body and when the field thundered off Jockey Bellizzi lay in his dirty royal-blue-&-white silks, unconscious...
...think my subscription has expired, but if it hasn't I wish to cancel it, as your photographic reproductions of recent murders have been sickening and I don't care to have a magazine come into my house which leaves a bad taste in my mouth...
...happy ending. The simplicity of her role and her unusual beauty make it unnecessary for Miss Sidney to extend her histrionic talents which she has amply proven on other occasions. Cary Grant is tall, dark and handsome, and sufficiently capable even if he does sound as if his mouth were full...
...both powers took steps to be sure that no Arab state of real importance could arise by cutting off the richest territory as league of nations mandates. Mesopotamia with its rich Tigris-Euphrates valley went to Britain as Irak; France took Syria, also rich in oil. Aden, at the mouth of the Red Sea, had been British since...