Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This he did, Schoolboy Stalin plausibly explained, in obedience to the injunction of an Orthodox Bishop who had said, "If you hear sacrilegious speech, close the mouth of the blasphemer with your hand." In mathematics, according to Father Bogoyavlenski, "Stalin always stood at the foot of the class. Asked to do a sum in addition, he said the answer was one thousand. 'Only one thousand?' the teacher inquired. 'Well then a million!'" retorted generous Schoolboy Stalin. Berlin rumors last week that famed Professor Hermann Zondek, specialist in internal diseases, had left for Moscow "ostensibly to lecture...
...sides, right, left, front, back, top and bottom. At the back end, there is a tail from which hangs a plume with which she drives off the flies so that they cannot fall in the milk. The head has for its aim to have horns and that the mouth can be somewhere. The horns are there for horning, the mouth for chewing a cud. Under the cow hangs the milk and it is arranged to be milked. When people milk, the milk comes and there is never an end to the reserve. I have never learned how she makes more...
Porto Rico is a land of mountains, of palms, and banana trees, of tropical storms and tropical beauty. The moss-grown walls of Morro Castle rise out of a wine dark sea at the entrance to San Juan harbor. Through the harbor mouth, by the great Spanish fort, to the land of romance beyond, the land of ebony-haired Spanish girls with flashing eyes, the land of Ponce de Leon and the Conquistadores, the Vagabond goes until the doors of Sever open again. Or, it may be, for a little longer...
...Coast & Geodetic Survey, quarrymen, photographers - huddled under a line of steel freight cars. No other humans should have been within a mile of them. The occasion was dangerous. The military men said that during a heavy explosion it was best to stand on one's toes with the mouth open. The concussion then had less effect on the ears. Others opined that it was just as well to lie stretched out on one's stomach...
Eagle. The mouth-twisting name of a pencil firm started in 1856 was Berolzheimer, Illfelder & Reckendorfer. Later it became Eagle Pencil Co. It makes fountain pens, has the largest timber reserves of any U. S. pencil company, boasts of having invented the inserted eraser and indelible pencil. It is run by the three great-grandsons of Founder Daniel Berolzheimer. President Edwin, redheaded, mustached, a collector of armor, lately said: "I'm the most active but I am not so active either...