Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nearby National Museum Building will come another plaster figure to join the silent party. It will be a long-legged model probably dressed in Eleanor Blue and posed to suggest energy, cheer, simplicity. The face, which in the living original is dominated by a generous, tooth-filled mouth, receding chin and warm, humorous eyes, will be indistinguishable from the faces of all the other First Ladies. For Sculptor William H. Egberts of the Smithsonian avoids arguments with friends, relatives and the subjects themselves by giving all the Presidents' wives the face of Frances Pierce Connelly's bust...
...Todhunter school for girls. Profits go back into the business, which is operated by her boon companion, Marion Dickerman. With her other inseparable friend. Nancy Cook, a tousle headed. unfeminine. effective woman who often dresses mannishly and smokes cigarets in a holder at the side of her mouth. Mrs. Roosevelt operates Val-Kill shops, an enterprise which manufactures antique reproductions at Hyde Park. This is a non-profit concern. In the past five years Mrs. Roosevelt has picked up some $25,000 from endorsements, radio talks and writing. The Roosevelts maintain a summer place at Campobello. New Brunswick, another country...
...disease of uncleanliness. Occurring primarily in the tropics, it is common in the U. S. South, has become a growing menace to the North during the past decade. It is caused by amebae-one-celled parasites-in the intestinal canal. The parasites enter the canal through the mouth, in food or drink. Some of them leave in intestinal discharges. In the U. S., with its well-guarded water and sewage systems, the parasites are spread chiefly by infected food handlers who fail to wash their hands thoroughly. As with typhoid bacilli, the parasites may be carried by humans...
...candor about the most personal matters, his in cessant hunger. More than anyone else, Phyllis Granville (Katharine Warren) is captivated. She finds Martin curiously like her husband, from whom she has been growing apart, when he was younger. The association grows stronger. When Martin, appearing with milk on his mouth, solemnly reminds her that it is a sign someone will kiss him before morning, Phyllis volunteers. "Sometime later," begs Martin, "when you tuck me in bed.'' Those who know their Morley will recall that this tryst is forestalled by the fatal accident to Phyllis' children...
...These words the student had never seen. But he knew something of the ways of the thinkers. He constructed an elaborate and circumstantial grouping of ambiguities, with frequent mention of the two words in the question. Then he handed in his paper, and walked away, somewhat down in the mouth. When the paper was handed back, he was astonished to perceive that it had received a grade of nine out of a possible ten; the figure nine, he affirms, was written in a puzzled and trembling hand...