Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what manner of man this was that President Roosevelt had called from the Presidency of American Car & Foundry to run the Treasury at a moment of greatest national emergency, they found small William Hartman Woodin, his eyes as blue as his shirt and collar, his cupid mouth pursed in an easy little smile, sitting informally on the edge of his desk, swinging his legs. Piped a pert newshawk: "Mr. Secretary, you're in a pretty hot spot, aren't you?" The brand-new Secretary reached down to his big black leather chair, rubbed his hand slowly over...
...haven't slept an hour since night before last," Senator Glass declared out of the corner of his mouth. But fatigue did not diminish the little Virginian's ardor of exposition. He admitted that there were sections of the bill that "shocked" him. Pointing to its anti-hoarding provision as "arbitrary," he said: "I don't know who there is with wit or wisdom enough to define hoarding...
...tried like this and could not lift him. Then I started screaming and ringing the bell. The porter, he came. We lifted the Senator into the berth. I lifted his arms up and down. I patted his body all over. I opened his eyes. I blew in his mouth. Then some doctor come. He push me aside. I want to do anything to bring life to the Senator...
Proud as Punch of his double victory, Premier Daladier announced that he would go to London March 15 "to discuss war debts and other major international problems" with Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald. After that it will be necessary to make an end of hand-to-mouth financing and really balance France's budget...
...will contain, is, of course, only a matter of conjecture, even for the experts who so thickly infest Washington. But there are scores of economists all over the country who are praying that it will endorse a program of careful inflation. To many of them such a plan a mouth ago seemed dangerous and unnecessary. But now it appears that almost any sort of inflation would be preferable to drifting, while a moderate monetary expansion would do wonders for the country...