Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cotton seed (per ton) for the hand-to-mouth citizenry whose domestic economy has brought them scarcely enough to run their 1927 automobiles since...
...Major Fey is the sort of character that feature writers love. Hawk-nosed, with a mouth like a wolftrap. Major Fey has a war record even more gallant than that of his Chancellor. There is in the Austrian Army a decoration that could exist in no other country. Marie Antoinette's smart mother the Empress Maria Theresa realized that the Habsburg Archdukes who commanded her divisions were not military geniuses. She established a medal, open to anyone, from general to corporal, who in wartime should carry out a maneuver against the orders of his superiors and should succeed...
...California, is the business of Olga (Jean Dixon, minus the acerbity so brilliantly displayed in Once in a Lifetime) and her young sister Myra. Surprised and shocked is Olga when her sinister onetime boy friend (Robert Gleckler of Broadway) arrives and, snarling out of the side of his mouth, demands a hideout for himself and young accomplice. By the time the curtain falls, Olga has shot the bad man, regenerated the accomplice...
...quickly hoisted anchor to let the fish tow the skiff around the ocean. For a mile he went out to sea, then turned and ran back, staying mostly on the surface. After an hour and one-half he shook himself so violently that the hook came out of his mouth-but caught again in his side, making him even harder to handle. When he was exhausted he sounded. "Pumping" him up stone dead from the bottom was excruciating labor. A commercial boat's block & tackle was required to hoist the prize finally inboard...
...administration and too little harnessed to definite spiritual functions." Of him St. Gandhi has said: "Bishop Fred Fisher first came to visit me on a Monday. He talked all day. I couldn't even get a word in anywhere. All I could do was listen. I kept my mouth shut and let the Bishop talk. The rest did me so much good that I have ever since kept Monday as a day of silence." Dr. Fisher is famed for the way he ends his prayers, looking toward heaven and saying firmly: "For JESUS' sake, Amen...