Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Seizing both his lips and tugging for a fraction of a second so hard that II Duce gives the impression of trying to tear off his own mouth...
Into the sunny oval room shuffled some 120 newshawks, the corps of eyes & ears through which the country sees its President from day to day. Behind a flat-topped desk sat Franklin Delano Roosevelt, his mouth stretched wide, his eyes half closed in a vigorous grin. He was smoking a cigaret in a long ivory holder. Behind the President stood his three secretaries, Col. Louis McHenry Howe, Marvin Hunter Mclntyre, Stephen Tyree Early. Miss Marguerite Lehand, his personal secretary, sat in the window ledge. Near his elbow sat his stenographer, Grace Tully, with pad & pencil. Another stenographer, Henry Kannee, occupied...
...Evansville, Ind., Raymond Woods, 21, snapped at a grain of popcorn he had tossed into the air, caught it in his mouth, fell unconscious to the ground. A doctor found he had snapped a neck vertebra out of place...
...Medical Evangelists at Los Angeles. In the current American Journal of Surgery he, a radio enthusiast, explained how he had equipped himself to talk to his classes without raising his voice and disturbing the patient. His device is a microphone mounted on a little rod, held before his mouth inside the surgeon's mask by a headband, connected to an amplifier built into a suitcase...
...struggled to save as much essential equipment as possible, dragging their sledges by hand. Every time they reached the main supply depot, they found that it had drifted outward faster than they could move the supplies in. "It was actual blood-taste-in-the-mouth," Captain Riiser-Larsen later radioed the Hearstpapers, whose publisher was one of his sponsors. They "could have taken sufficient emergency ration and rushed for safety on the barrier side. But with the wind off the land, the dog floe might drift out any time, and we decided to stay where we were, eventually drift...