Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eyes & Ears" of his President in the Philippines, Patrick Jay ("Pat") Hurley, youthful and dashing Secretary of War, last week also took on some of the attributes of a presidential Mouth. Journeying to Manhattan, he made two rousing political speeches in defense of his Chief which had in them the clear clang of the coming campaign. What keyed up the Hurley addresses even more was the fact that friends of their energetic and ambitious maker warmly hope that 1932 will bring into the G. O. P. field a Hoover-Hurley ticket and that, as the vice-presidential nominee, Pat Hurley...
Booth tried to dropkick on the Harvard 14-yd. line early in the second quarter. A dejected little fellow, his mouth wide open, his eyes squinting, he watched his kick veer outside the east goalpost...
...characters are vital. The descriptions last behind closed eyes. And the narrative at times mounts to heights of power. In spots the author's craft becomes stagey and he permits here and there an anachronism of expression in the mouth of a character. Perhaps the greatest tribute payable to books of the sort can be paid to All Ye People. Though living in the time of the fulfillment, the reader feels not triteness in the prophecy he has seen realized. He finishes the book with a sense of anticipation and exultation, exultation skin to that of John Bray...
...Puzzled over the Prime Minister's opening Parliamentary speech, which Scot MacDonald made as innocuous as the words he had put into George V's mouth, but more exciting...
...prevent failure two Great Powers sent bigger men. Britain's new Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon, replaced her former delegate, Viscount Cecil who last week took a back seat. For the U. S. famed Prentiss Gilbert, who sat with the Council in Geneva not daring to open his mouth, did not sit. Instead last week Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes opened and shut his resounding mouth in a nearby Paris hotel, represented the U. S. so potently that Council statesmen gathered in his suite for what almost became informal Council sessions between the regular League acts...