Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...giant of the Senate, his primitive background, and incalculable idealism. In Europe they believe that all politicians are realists. Non-partisan experts have said for years that debts and reparations should be cancelled, that the Polish Corridor was an invention of the devil, but these honest opinions in the mouth of a politician are for Europe nothing short of deadly weapons of aggression. Warsaw's newssheets shouted "Borah, a German Agent," the mildest adjective that Paris papers found for him was "naïve." Intentionally or not Mr. Borah had stolen the show of Laval's visit...
...Campbell fell fatally wounded. An instant later his companions had avenged him and McGrath lay dying. Meanwhile, other policemen searched for Weirman. Finally they came upon him lying still on the ground. Desperado Weirman, seeing he could not escape, had put the muzzle of his riot gun in his mouth and blown out his brains...
...present problems that it offers is essentially sound: Back to Queen Victoria! A charming anecdote lightens the text. Reproved by his governess for putting his knife in his month, the Infant Prince stood on divine right. The governess was obstinate: "Kings still less put knifes in their mouth," said she, "Well, this King does," was his quick response. There should be more of this sort of thing among our children: It is the new spirit...
...Glory and Romance of everyday life." Certainly he has realized these aims in his plays, particularly "The Fool," "The Enemy" and his latest, "The House Beautiful," which opens next week at the Plymouth and is actually advertised as "the play that leaves a clean taste in your mouth...
...Russell's former instructor had an effective last word. "I see now what Socrates would have said, as he drew his cloak about him, in the conclusion of the missing dialogue; 'I understand now, my dear Bertrand, the meaning of meaning is that my mouth is watering...