Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Roseburg turned his pistol on himself. Germano sent a second bullet into Roseburg's head, then shot himself. Duver shot Germano again, put the muzzle of his pistol into his mouth, pulled the trigger. The hostage guards threw open the doors...
...Cannon Jr., Chairman," "James Cannon Jr., executor." When a Washington bank got finnicky about check endorsements, Bishop Cannon retorted: "As the Master said when he was asked to pay tribute to Caesar, 'Go and catch a fish and take the gold coin out of the fish's mouth and pay the tribute...
...little cruiser Patria and the gunboat Yara blocked the harbor mouth, exchanging shot for shot with the rebels on shore...
...cold truth, the Federal troops rushed the mouth of the railway tunnel the next morning. It was deserted. The Gibara rebels had slipped through the swamps during the night but they left behind them almost all their new landed arms: 70 machine guns, 2,500 rifles, 2,500,000 rounds of ammunition. Among the Federals one officer and five men were killed, eight wounded. There were seven known rebels dead, 16 wounded...
John Henry came from the Black River Country, "whar all de good rousterbouts comes I'm, an' de sun don't never shine.'' His birth was Gargantuan: he weighed 44 pounds, and as soon as he opened his mouth he called for lashings of victuals. He talked brash and he acted uppety, but he got things done. He could lift 500 pounds of cotton at one lick and with one smack sink a nine-inch spike in a whiteoak tie. With women, too, his ways were winning, till he encountered his fatal Julie Anne...