Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...favorite headlines. He was passionately addicted to just one brand of champagne, Pommery Nature, 1906, and bought up almost the entire vintage. Before each of his roaring speeches, for which he was paid enormous fees, Horatio Bottomley would gulp half a bottle and wipe his mouth on his sleeve...
...provisions of the Treaty of Paris, suffered a white pogrom at the hands of their exultant Whig neighbors. On May 11, 1783, following arrangements between British General Carleton in New-York and the Governor of Nova Scotia, the "Spring Fleet" carrying refugees from New York dropped anchor at the mouth of the St. John River. Kept aboard their ships by high seas and driving rain, they did not land for a week. All summer long the Spring Fleet ferried back & forth until some 20,000 men, women and children had been transported. They were not the ordinary type of emigrant...
Thus began the "re-enactment"' of the first balloon ascension made 150 years ago at Annonay, France by the Brothers Montgolfier. The Montgolfiers' balloon (globe aerostatique) likewise was lifted by hot air. It carried a lire grate beneath the open mouth of the bag to maintain the hot air supply. The Bonettes were commemorating that event, but their balloon relied on its original supply of hot air. At about 3,000 ft. it struck a layer of cold air, began to shrink and descend. That should have been the signal for King Louie to jump with his chute...
...kindling in the trench. Soon the fabric began to bulge and billow with hot air inside it. After ten minutes of fire-stoking and manipulating of ropes, the fabric took shape as a balloon, tugging and straining at its guys. A trapeze was rigged below the balloon's mouth, and just above the trapeze was a platform holding an automatic cinema run by batteries. Out from the little crowd stepped a handsome young man, shedding his cloak with a nourish to reveal gorgeous white silk tights, glittering with spangles. He was Louis ("King Louie") Bonette, junior member of Bonette...
Julia Newberry was born with a good-sized silver spoon in her good-sized mouth. When her father died he left his wife and two daughters so well off that they could easily afford $60,000 to make over their town house into what everyone said was "the handsomest house in Chicago." The hall was 70 ft. long, and Julia had her own "studio." with a private staircase. They could also afford to leave it for summers in Richfield Springs, N. Y., visits to Utica, Manhattan, St. Augustine, Fla., extended grand tours abroad. Their U. S. travels were of course...