Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tubaman Houston lets his right foot do some of the work that ordinarily requires mighty chest expansion, highly developed breath control. His foot, instead of idly marking time, operates a bellows which shoots auxiliary air up through a tube into his mouth. That the air may reach the mouth at lung temperature and humidity, the tube passes through a small tank of water heated by an electric light bulb. Mr. Houston admits that the aerophor presents its difficulties. It takes a big mouth to hold the forked tube on either side of the big tuba mouthpiece, a special facial-muscle...
...required for premedical students, and makes a very good half-course for any man who does not care for laboratory work with his chemistry. Many important biological and physiological facts are explained from the chemical point of view, including the passage of a piece of steak from the mouth to its final resting place in the structure of the body and the unrivaled efficiency of the blood in preserving a constant alkalinity under various disturbing conditions. Course 2a is a prerequisite...
When Signor Vittorio Scialoja, often Italy's League representative, opened his mouth there were anti-Fascist yells of "Murderer!" until French blue shirts began a gay, devastating chant of "Not so loud, Macaroni...
Life's physiological realities have long been discussed openly by advertisers of mouth wash, yeast, sanitary napkins, toilet paper and laxatives. But the inevitability of Death, homeliest reality of all, was not used flatly as a sales argument un til last week. Breaker of the convention was a milk company, Borden's advertising Walker-Gordon acidophilus milk...
...collegian is Joe E. Brown, whose strange face, rasping voice and alligator mouth enchant some cinemaddicts, embarrass others...