Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Arkansas sat quietly in her small Jonesboro home, surrounded by her three sons and flowers left over from the funeral. Short, maternal, with brown wavy hair and blue eyes, she has, after 29 years of married life, grown to resemble her husband, especially about the small tucked-in mouth, the narrow eyes. She and Thaddeus Caraway met at Dixon College, Tenn. They both taught school in rural Arkansas. For a honeymoon they went to New Orleans. While her Washington friends were last week proclaiming her witty and wise, she with tears in her eyes was disclaiming all political pretensions...
...film, which was assembled with maps of the region by the Foundation this fall, gives a detailed sound record of the progress of the expedition from the mouth of the river to its source, and includes many shots taken from the reconnoitering plane, which was the first one to be used on such a trip...
...investigated Indians and temples in Guatemala and Mexico, wrote a book about it (Tribes and Temples) with Frans Ferdinand Blom. His first novel, Laughing Boy, a Navajo love story, won the Pulitzer Prize for 1929. Long, lank, dark-skinned, dark-haired, with a little mustache over a big mouth, Author La Farge has "low-swinging, gorilla-like arms," has some-times been mistaken by Indians for one of themselves. He is married to Wanden Mathews, lives in Manhattan...
There are richer men than was Dr. Dorrance; more valuable organizations than Campbell Soup Co. But few companies so big were ever completely owned by one man. Many an investment banker's mouth watered at the thought of selling such a fat goose to the public. None ever succeeded in talking business with Founder Dorrance (excepting Lehman Bros., which sold a few shares of preferred stock, later retired). In his will Dr. Dorrance admonished his executors not to sell Campbell Soup stock but if "after the greatest deliberation" a sale is ever found necessary, to sell...
...portrayed in the theatre, is a business that must be attacked on many fronts. The only thing that serious Mr. O'Neill can inevitably be counted on to avoid is a touch of humor. Like his fellow-Hibernian Synge, he loves "all that is salt in the mouth, all that is rough to the hand, all that heightens the emotions by contest, all that stings into life the sense of tragedy...