Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every one with a kick against NRA codes to come to Washington and make it. One cartoonist portrayed the General with swelling bosom standing before the huge and hungry lion of Public Opinion while a placard announced "General Johnson will positively put his head in the Lion's mouth." Another had the General standing back to back with a jackass ("Great American Kicker"), and urging "Go on kick, I dare ya to!" A third had the embattled General surrounded with snowballs, brickbats and dead cats, belligerently challenging all comers: "Come on! Let's see y'u throw...
...rest of the Press. Julius David Stern, publisher of the New York Evening Post and Philadelphia Record printed a front page box headlined "O. K., MR. PRESIDENT!" The Milwaukee Journal: "President Roosevelt has accepted the newspaper code with certain remarks which reflect the bad taste left in his mouth after months and months of unjustifiable delay. The delay and the haggling for advantages were carried on under the camouflage of a valiant fight for 'freedom of the press...
...desks, which lacks two drawers, sits a dreary-looking little man with keen eyes, thinning blond hair, deep lines around his mouth. He wears a grey alpaca office coat. He is Arthur Francis Corrigan, 44, "boss" of the press room and dean of legmen in The Times Square and Hell's Kitchen districts. Last week the press room boys gave "the boss" a party because he had just rounded out 20 years on the job, ten of them at West Side Court. A magistrate was toastmaster, two others made speeches. Six deputy district attorneys, many a police inspector, dozens...
...present billing at the University features Joe E. Brown in his latest smash; the boy with the mouth is cast as a gob, and manages to disorganize the personnel of at least one battleship and one admiral's country home. He has developed a penchant for the important sex which would do credit to a disciple of Harpo Marx'; he becomes a boxer for is day; and he winds up under bomb fire on a condemned ship. The film, then, is not without action, and not without comedy relief. It is excellent entertainment. Lack of space precludes any remarks...
...would President Roosevelt look with dundrearies? Could Primo Camera's appearance be improved by a walrus mustache over his vast gummy mouth? Could Greta Garbo get a job as a bearded lady? Such questions may sometimes arise in the minds of presidents, prizefighters or actresses but they occur more frequently to children who answer them by defacing newspaper photographs...