Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Governor Black is very tall, very thin, with a very big nose, big ears, big mouth and very merry eye. He looks something like Andy Gump, does not mind being told so. More important, he is full of what is known as gumption. It was gumption rather than high finance that qualified him in the President's eyes for his Washington...
...Grant Park near the city's lakefront. There they burned in effigy a wicked banker who would not buy city tax warrants so the teachers could be paid long-due salaries. The effigy did not look much like anyone, but it had a corncob pipe in its mouth and it was supposed to be Charles Gates Dawes...
...Into the mouth of the Columbia River last week swarmed hundreds of thousands of plump fish. The salmon were running, fighting rapids, flashing over falls, bucking fishways around dams, bound more than 500 mi. inland to spawn and die. And last week for the first time in years no man hindered them. Boats cruised slowly on the river to see that no nets were laid. The Columbia River fisherfolk were on strike...
...midair. Suddenly he looks down in horror, races back across space to the cliff, resumes wrestling with complete concentration. He flees interminably before a lion which loses its teeth when it nips him. Mickey claps himself into the teeth and turns on the lion which flees abjectly, its toothless mouth a parched wrinkle. Mickey pursuing, champs the teeth ferociously, suddenly gives out a lion-like roar. Mickey is a mouse but he acts like a man. He has a sack-like hound and a cat. They and the incidental animals and things contrast with Mickey's seriousness, act with...
...Railroad Presidents' Table. In the old days Edward P. Ripley, his great predecessor as head of the Atchison, and Paul Morton, Atchison man. Secretary of the Navy under the first Roosevelt, used to be his usual lunch companions. Never a publicity seeker, Mr. Storey kept his mouth shut about economics, attended to his job quietly, without worry, and brought the Atchison's earnings up to $23 a share in 1926. Thus he grew old gracefully, remained, until he shut his 40-year-old desk (inherited from Mr. Ripley), a big man in the railroad world...