Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sitting close by in the oval study was generally to be found last week a stocky, square-shouldered man of 46. Grey streaks his thin dark hair above a domed forehead. His nose is long and straight between round, ruddy cheeks, over a full-sized chin and small mouth. Mostly he listened but when he did speak between puffs of a cigaret, his voice was pleasantly rich and low. almost a diffident drawl. He was Raymond Moley. Officially he was there as an Assistant Secretary of State. Personally he was there because, as head of the "Brain Trust...
...Senate chamber as Senator Glass rose to his feet and, against doctor's orders, delivered the only notable speech of the inflation debate. His physical strength was at low ebb. Tears stood in his soft brown eyes. But his words, bitten off out of the corner of his mouth, were edged with their old-time vehemence. . . . After 20 minutes he slumped back into his chair, weak and exhausted. About him crowded inflationists and anti-inflationists, to wring his small hand, praise his courage...
Someone struck him in the mouth, jeered: "Will you swear now?" The jurist toppled to his knees. His teeth felt loose but he managed to reply: "No, I won't swear...
...conducive to its moodiness. Sparks and ashes emerged from a small crater while the inhabitants of Ponguelano scurried from alleys going toward the large cellar which Armakeli had built; he had once said in one of his ecstatic moments that to die happily one had to be prostrate, with mouth opened and with a spout directly above the oral cavity so that the light iodine coloured wine which he made might trickle downward from a flagon. Modest but confident he had prognosticated to a skeptical people that the day would arrive when they would no longer laugh at his whimsicalities...
...detail of the octoplasm, Dr. William McDougall, former Harvard professor of Psychology, found "all the appearances of the lung of some animal surgically manipulated to resemble roughly the shape of a human hand." He implied, the report states, that the ectoulasm was realy some substance held in Margery's mouth and thence extruded...