Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Curse of the Sons of Han," the Yellow Dragon staged its most spectacular Hood in 1852 when it shifted its entire course from the south side to the north side of the Shantung Peninsula. Ever since it has discharged into the sea 400 miles north of its former mouth. Last week the Government experts, prowling anxiously up and down the Yellow River's dikes below Kaifeng. finally telegraphed a nation-wide warning that "almost inevitably" the retaining walls will give way and the Yellow Dragon will revert, roaring and thundering, to its old course...
...scars do develop, volunteered Dr. Howard Leighton Updegraff of Hollywood, plastic surgeons can do what they are doing for Doris Johnson's hand. For head disfigurements it is now possible to remake eyebrows and lashes with snips of scalp. linings of the eyelids with mucous membrane from the mouth, and to remodel noses, lips and ears with skin grafts. Burned faces, said Dr. Updegraff, are more common now than in Wartime...
Tannic acid (or tannin) is the leatherizing element in oak, sumach and other plants. It is tannin in tea which makes a strong infusion pucker the mouth...
...Game. One restless fellow laid hold of Marco, the squadron's donkey mascot, painted zebra stripes on him. Others held a mock election for the recipient of an ivory plaque carved with the figure of an eagle clutching the Italian flag in its mouth. The plaque had been sent by a girl in Rome to "the pilot who has no sweetheart." The pilots elected Lieut. Cadringheri, and all autographed a picture of one of the squadron's seaplanes to send to the girl. The horseplay was interrupted when Col. Pellegrini mustered the men of the squadron into line...
Then came the War. Authoress Jameson has never gotten over it. Her brother was killed, most of her friends. "In 1932, what lying, gaping mouth will say that it was worth while to kill my brother in his nineteenth year? You may say that the world's account is balanced by the item that we have with us still a number of elderly patriots, politicians, army contractors, women who obscenely presented white feathers. You will forgive me if, as courteously as is possible in the circumstances, I say that a field latrine is more use to humanity than these...