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Word: mouthing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quote from your issue of March 19: "Nervous, twitchetty, bespectacled, he has a big nose, prominent mouth, receding chin, looks like a fat-cheeked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 16, 1934 | 4/16/1934 | See Source »

...that the service has working for it between 150 and 300 agents. Wild horses would not draw the correct number from Chief William Herman Moran. whose thick shock of white hair hangs over a hawk's nose and eyes, and whose close-cropped mustache covers a firm, silent mouth. He arrives in his office on the first floor of the Treasury Building at nine each morning. Through a barred window he can look across the lawn at the White House. When the lights wink on in the President's living quarters at night, Chief Moran knows that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOARDS & BUREAUS: Undercover Men | 4/16/1934 | See Source »

...have a Turkish visa and they refused. Desperate, she tried to push past them at the ship's rail. One of them seized her shoulder. She wrenched to get away, toppled backwards, slid over the rail into the harbor. She came up blowing the foul water from her mouth. A sailor with a boat hook fished her out. They carried her prostrate and drenched back to her cabin and the Rumania steamed off carrying her back to Athens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Struggle in Istanbul | 4/16/1934 | See Source »

Physicians led lanky Henry Harrington into an operating room, stood him up against a wall. Patient Harrington took a look at the Gastro-Photo, grew nervous. "Open your mouth wide," commanded Dr. Falenks, forthwith thrusting into his mouth a metal cylinder two inches long and one-half inch thick, attached to a long rubber tube. Punctured by 16 pinholes, the cylinder contained a tiny flash bulb and two pieces of film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Gastro-Photo | 4/16/1934 | See Source »

...Doylestown, Wis., John McMann and Russell McMann were arrested for burglarizing the general store. When the sheriff carefully fitted a piece of cheese in John McMann's mouth, found the tooth marks matched a bite taken during the burglary, John McMann confessed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 9, 1934 | 4/9/1934 | See Source »

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