Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mouth-immature. (Cornell...
...bath-tub. Another psychologist gave his explanation. "Being alone, we regress to a more infantile level." A well-known University dean, when asked whether he sang while taking a bath, replied, "No, I never take a bath." Questioned further, he denied even singing in the shower. "You get your mouth full of water," he said...
...grayish blue. Dr. Magrath went out into the hall where the sister was waiting, and turning to her suddenly, shouted, "Who turned off the gas?" Taken off her guard, the girl finally admitted removing a rubber hose, which she had found connecting the gas jet with the boy's mouth, and opening the windows so as to permit the gas to escape...
...windpipe into the lungs. The esophagoscope goes down the gullet. Dr. Jackson developed both after he got the initial idea from two German professors. They derived their method from sword-swallowers. Jugglers learned long, long ago that by throwing their heads far back and depressing their tongues, their opened mouths were brought into a direct line with their straightened gullets. By getting his patients to do the same, the late Dr. Alfred Kirstein found that he could see far down the throat with a small headlight. That was in 1894. Three years later Dr. Gustav Killian succeeded in safely running...
...phased by the usual complication of such a tale, however, the Barrymores seem equally at home in the huge hallways, the three-story Gothic arches, and the long expanses of stairways of the Gourney-Martin country house. The ease with which John, clad in a smoking jacket, pipe in mouth, opens massive oaken doorways and closes them noiselessly, tiptoes softly along the great corridors, and the grace and agility with which he slides down the huge, smooth stone bannisters are a pleasure to watch. One can almost smell the fragrance of his pipe as he leans over the rail...