Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...muddy-looking white jade was used for mouth pieces for tobacco and opium pipes in China due to its cheapness. This was also on sale in Harbin and places in Manchuria...
...biting a soft substance such as a ball of cotton or soft cloth or "milks'" the snakes immediately before the dance. The "milking'' process is done by holding the rattler behind the head and having it strike into a fabric or parchment tightly drawn across the mouth of a jar or glass, thus forcing the venom out of the sacs into the receptacle. This would prevent fatality from a strike and it is needless to believe the Indians are not struck during the ceremony. One point of your story is purely fantastic from reptile study and that...
...Cocktails make the mouth water ? until the alcohol gets into the blood. Then the saliva tends to cease flowing and the parched throat craves another drink. Whatever good effect the cocktails have as appetizers, the good must soon be lost. For as soon as the blood absorbs the alcohol, digestion is retarded. ? Dr. Andrew Leon Winsor, Cornell University...
...race followers as the pylon in front of the grandstand is "Pop's" ungainly figure striding across the field with his colored starting flags tucked under one arm?red for "all clear," white for "go," checkered for "last lap." Usually he has a cigar in the side of his mouth, always he wears a ten-gallon hat, even when he flies, which he does with grandmotherly caution...
...Shelly, 76, swung on to his horse, fixed a shiny oldtime stovepipe hat on his head, put a perky cigar in his mouth, and posed for a moment. Except for frock coat and saddle medicine bags, that was the way he rode into Mulvane 52 years ago, a year after its founding. Laughed he last week: "I had 45? in my pocket then." Now he has a big house in Mulvane, a wife and four children (the son is Dr. Hargus Gerard Shelly, 51, of Wichita), and a practice which still requires night calls...