Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mustafa Kemal Pasha has taken the fez off Turkey's head, put on a hat instead; but even Dictator Kemal has not put a briar pipe in Turkey's mouth. Turks still smoke (at home or in coffee houses) the romantic, long-tubed, bubble-bubbling nargile...
...they were still $707,054 in the red, of which $295,250 came from Chairman John Jacob Raskob. During the last three months Mr. Raskob has increased his party's debt to him by $40,000. These figures caused the Republican National Committee to remark through the convenient mouth of West Virginia's Senator Hatfield: "Mr. Raskob is steadily increasing the size of the mortgage which he holds on the once proud party of Jefferson and Jackson...
...rump session last April at which no impeachments were promised failed to budge him (TIME, May 4). The State deficit had passed the $3,000,000 mark, was bowling along toward $7,000,000 by the year's end. With tax collections off, only by hand-to-mouth borrowing from lenient bankers could the State keep its institutions halfway going. A serious crisis is anticipated in December when $6,000,000 in State obligations fall...
...horse show in Montebucarlo, Italy, a horse bit a large chunk out of Theodore Crema's cheek. In intense pain and indignation, Theodore Crema thrust his hand into the horse's mouth, recovered the gob of flesh, drove with it several miles to a hospital. Surgeons restored the piece to Theodore Crema's face...
...concert hall that night an angry crowd awaited him. "A morte! (Kill him!)" they shouted. "Is it true you refused to play the Fascist hymn?" He stood firm, his eyes flashing, his moustache bristling. "Yes, it is true!'1 Then their blows rained upon him . . . his mouth gushed blood...