Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suppressed that issue of the Junior Red Cross News, and all Junior Red Cross activities in Somerville.* The pen-&-ink drawing of Rafael, Juanita and the priest was captioned: "Rafael and Juanita stood before the priest, who murmured a blessing and placed a barley wafer in Juanita's mouth." The Somerville schoolmen called this "sacrilegious . . . offensive . . . un-American . . . ridiculing the great central act of worship of a great religious denomination." Other Massachusetts cities-Cambridge, Lowell, Lawrence, Everett, Fall River-joined in the ban, were followed by New York City...
...Orleans was thrown into uproar. With banks closed, Saturday night payrolls were not met. Many Negro laborers, living hand-to-mouth, could not buy food. Department stores flatly refused to cash checks. Until news of the holiday-making conference leaked out, newspaper offices were swamped with inquiries from mystified subscribers wanting to know what it was all about...
...student accustomed to the easy-going, good-hearted manners of the Biological laboratories is near prostration at his first glimpse of the inner workings in the domain of chemistry. He has lived from hand to mouth, intellectually speaking, and is suddenly forced to conform to rule in every breath he takes. This tends to destroy the precious faculty of indifference and is discouraging. But an even worse effect of the department's callousness is the harm it does to what the undergraduate regards as "academic leisure": instead of being delightfully at his ease, the student of chemistry is made...
There are two theories of how vowel sounds are made: 1) that the vocal cords vibrate, like rubbed violin strings; 2) that, like blowing a whistle or across a bottle mouth, puffs of air from the vocal cords excite resonances in the head cavities (pharynx, mouth, nose, sinuses). To confirm one or the other theory, Lee Edward Travis of University of Iowa's Psychopathic Hospital and Archibald R. Buchanan of the Department of Anatomy, cut the heads from a couple of dead men, suspended the heads by wires from a ceiling and up through the severed necks blew puffs...
...cough through the nose and, like coughing, a reflex effort to clear the air passages of an irritation. In sneezing the lungs fill with air, then forcibly expel the air. As the blast shoots up the windpipe, the tongue presses against the soft palate, thus shutting the mouth off from the throat. Only way for the blast to get out of the head is through the nose...