Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Things had become a trifle grim when the Conference voted down (52 to 2) a proposal for total disarmament of all nations, made by Russia. There was a bad taste in everyone's mouth, left by the studied irony of Russia's Maxim Litvinov when he said: "I must apologize for suggesting once again that there be total disarmament, but where should this proposal be made if not to this disarmament conference...
...bought in its entirety by Sir Joseph Duveen. The Cleveland Museum, which had already picked several choice morsels at the dispersal of the Guelph Treasure, sent emissaries to Sir Joseph. They came back with the Delia Robbia plaque which shows the head of a tousled-haired young boy, mouth open as in adenoids. He is supposed to be singing...
...Harold Murray does most of the singing, assisted by taffy-haired Katherine Carrington, a lovely theatrical newcomer with a mouth like a D on its back. Irving Berlin (Israel Baline) appears to have reopened a few old scores for his music, but "A Roof in Manhattan" is memorably tuneful...
...Johns two days later an unemployed man walked up to Sir Richard Squires, seized the Premier's pipe, stuck it in his own mouth and walked off smoking, unmolested. Pipeless Sir Richard too walked off unmolested (by a crowd of the unemployed who cheered the pipe-stealer...
...professor and later as commandant of the Ecole de Guerre, from its high pulpit he taught the army's teachers his theories of military strategy. By books, by word of mouth he popularized the doctrine of Attack, until it became dogma to the French. "This theory, which really rested on the sentimental assumption that Frenchmen were braver than Germans, certainly simplified the role of the leader. For directly an enemy was sighted he had merely to give the order, 'Forward.' " Biographer Liddell Hart, more concerned with military strategy than patriotic ardors, puts the armies' battles, from...