Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taken to one of the larger hospitals of Boston, exhibiting marked evidence of serious mental disturbance, including melancholia. All hope of helping his condition had been practically abandoned, and he was about to be committed to one of the State Institutions. A last-minute X-ray examination of his mouth showed two badly impacted wisdom teeth. Upon their removal the patient made rapid improvement, and returned to his usual occupation...
Ever since greying Harvard Professor Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague became Economic Adviser to the Bank of England (TIME, Jan. 27, 1930), he has kept his mouth shut. Hearstian suspicions that he might be Wall Street's go-between in maneuvers to scale down Europe's War debts to the U. S. have slowly died out. Last week Professor Sprague, now an accepted and respected figure in "The City" (London's financial district), created a stir by stating his conviction that Prosperity can be restored in industrial countries by creating a demand for a new product-such...
...made his plodding, Norman way in Paris to the unexciting post of Minister of Agriculture (1922-24). He made it exciting, became the idol of French farmers. No Minister of Agriculture before or since has shut out of France so much meat because of hoof & mouth disease, so many potatoes on account of scab, so much butter because of "taints." More important, during this period Minister of Agriculture Chéron won the firm friendship of his exalted chief, Premier Raymond Poincaré, "Savior of the Franc...
...operating room is silent except for the clink of instruments on the porcelain-topped table and the voice of the surgeon, muffled through a gauze mouth bandage, calling sharply for instruments. A bronchoscope, a long mirrored tube, is inserted in the patient's throat and a rod bearing a tiny electric light bulb dropped down. From the sidelines a slender figure muffled in gauze darts forward to squint for perhaps half a minute down the bronchoscope, then back to her sketching pad and color box to draw as quickly as possible the infected tonsils, the tumor, or whatever...
...House, after it had heard the news by word of mouth, continued in session an hour to receive the President's message. It read: "It is my painful duty to inform you of the death today of Calvin Coolidge. . . . There is no occasion for me to recount his eminent services. . . . His entire lifetime has been one of single devotion to our country. . . ." Then the House, too, adjourned...