Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Half a Mouth. When Virginia took him out of its State Senate and sent him to the House in 1902, Carter Glass, a small-town editor like his father, was assigned to the Banking & Currency Committee. Of finance he knew nothing but was bent on learning all. Ten years later he emerged as the committee's chairman ready to make his maiden speech before the House. What he had to say on the Federal Reserve bill (then called the Owen-Glass measure) filled 14 newspaper columns. Thereafter he was silent for 30 months. This year in the Senate, where...
...remained for Senator Glass to curl his lip scornfully, grip his desk with both hands and pronounce a final damnation of the Soft Money arguments. Drawled he out of the right corner of his mouth...
...always so, as will testify the deep sardonic lines which frame his smiling mouth like a stern proscenium...
...Boheme was given first. Scotti paced the floor, adjusted his wig, peered closely into the mirror. The makeup concealed the signs of his 67 years, the pouches under his eyes, the two deeply chiseled lines which, under the paint, linked his beaklike nose with the corners of his tired mouth...
Intermission came with its clutter and shuffle of scenery. While he waited for the callboy's knock, Scotti tried to smoke one of his long, monogrammed cigarets, but his mouth was too parched. He had never been so nervous, he decided, not even on that first night in Malta 43 years ago when it had seemed fantastic that he, son of a Neapolitan grocer, intended for the priesthood, should be singing in opera. Finally the knock came...