Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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William Green (in Washington): "The cause of peace would be promoted and advanced if Secretary Perkins would keep her mouth shut...
...moment the Archduke sat straight, apparently unhurt, with his wife slumped across his lap. Then blood ran from his mouth, dark stains appeared on the collar of his green uniform, he crumpled up. Then they hastily drove Franz Ferdinand and Sophie to the Governor's residence just across the river. Both were dead before a doctor or a priest could reach them...
...that way politically is not hard to explain. He recalls that he became "socially conscious" at 19, when he went from deeply socialistic New Zealand to deeply laborite Australia. But for all his savage conviction, he is still a sly humorist. The words he puts in the mouth of his most famous cartoon creation, globular, mustached Colonel Blimp, archtype of the Tory diehard, are an acid parody of Conservative thought. Sample: "Come, come, let's be fair to Franco...
Chattered Eleanor Roosevelt in her syndicated Scripps-Howard column: "Someone sent me a wonderful clip to wear on my nose while swimming. ... I find, however, it is going to require some little time before I can breathe with ease through my mouth alone...
...over this front-tooth problem. The simplest procedure, he thought, would be to insert a peg in the socket of the extracted tooth, then cement a false tooth to the protruding end of the peg. But he never dared to do it, for he knew metal pegs might induce mouth irritation. Two years ago Dr. Strock decided to try the new alloy, vitallium. Vitallium is the most satisfactory metal doctors use for patching fractures. Fortnight ago, in the American Journal of Orthodontics and Oral Surgery, Dr. Strock told how he used inexpensive vitallium for making successful peg teeth. Into...