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Word: mouthing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week in their yard in Los Angeles, John Henderson, 11, and his brother Leo, 9, were playing with their shepherd dog Bing. They noticed that he was foaming and frothing at the mouth, just as they did when they brushed their teeth. John and Leo got a toothbrush, tried to clean the foam away. When Bing growled at them, John said: "Stop it, Bing. Remember, you must never bite, no matter what we do to you." The foam kept coming in Bing's mouth so the boys got a hose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Bird Songs & Skins | 11/28/1932 | See Source »

...wore on news flew by word of mouth around Moscow that one could see the Dictator's wife, that she was dead. By evening a curious Muscovite queue waited four abreast for their turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Poison or Peritonitis? | 11/21/1932 | See Source »

...Shean), his pretty, wide-eyed daughter Sieglinde (Katherine Carrington of Face the Music) and her rustic boy friend Karl (Walter Slezak). These bucolics have arrived in town with the walking club from the mountain village of Edendorf where everyone seems to have been born with a pitchpipe in his mouth. Unhappily for them, the rural lovers meet a playwright and his man-killing mistress, an opera star, impersonated with gusto by beauteous Natalie Hall. The star goes for Karl. The playwright goes for Sieglinde. With their attentions fast on their new inamoratas, the professional couple toss each other about, stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Nov. 21, 1932 | 11/21/1932 | See Source »

...hand-to-mouth policies of recent administrations, such as Mellon's failure to reduce bonded indebtedness as much as possible at a time when he was able to reduce taxes, have left the present administration with the necessity of cutting costs when fixed charges are higher than ever. While it is an unpopular theme to advance, it might safely be said that, despite waste, this country does not spend enough of its national income on government costs. Although such expenses as the department of commerce or appropriations for harbors or unnecessary veteran expenditures might well be cut, it would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE KING'S ENGLISH | 11/21/1932 | See Source »

...patois of pugilism, "natural" is a noun. It means a fight between two popular, able plug-uglies with a definite issue at stake. The natural in the lightweight division has been for some time a match between cocky little Tony Canzoneri, whose puffy mouth stretches all the way across his broad, flat face, and saturnine, hammer-handed Billy Petrolle, "The Fargo Express," with Canzoneri defending his title. It was scheduled for last summer, postponed when Petrolle hurt his arm in training, finally fought out last week before a capacity crowd at Madison Square Garden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Natural | 11/14/1932 | See Source »

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