Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Master Untiedt's visit was elaborately handled by the Press as a story of human interest in the White House. The boy was reported as entertaining the President with a mouth organ, "winning the heart" of five-year-old Granddaughter Peggy Hoover, further peeping in on a Cabinet meeting and the morning medicine ball exercises, eating "an informal, pleasant family luncheon with the President regaling the table with amusing stories...
...Crain, aged Tammany Sachem. In contrast to the dubious witnesses who have come before the inquiry for the past eight weeks was the appearance of Dr. Raymond Mcley, professor of public law at Columbia University. Professor Moley gave damaging testimony against Sachem Crain not by word of mouth but by a series of pitilessly clear charts which told in bold, graphic fashion the story of Mr. Crain's sorry administration. The Columbia pedagog's diagrams showed that the ratio of homicide convictions to known homicides had dropped to its lowest ebb in 25 years during the first year...
...Ohio's potent Negro vote is Maurice Maschke, Republican National Committeeman and party boss of Cleveland. Fortnight ago cigar-smoking, bridge-playing Boss Maschke went to St. Paul's African Methodist Episcopal Church to help launch Negro Councilman Leroy Bundy's campaign for reelection. His wide mouth below a hawk nose stretched into a wide grin as he looked down benevolently upon 400 praying, chanting blacks. Up rose Rev. 0. A. Childress, Negro preacher, and spoke...
Rude and tempestuous was Nature's welcome to the first permanent English settlers who, under Captain Christopher Newport, landed in 1607 at Cape Henry, Va. No less rude and tempestuous was the welcome President Hoover got last week when he visited the same spot at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay to help commemorate the 324th anniversary of that historic event...
...first game, which was played a mouth ago at Syracuse. Harvard won by a score of 7 to 8. Graham Guy, the Syracuse captain, is a veteran rugby players from South America. He will to assisted by John Hollis and William Ludi, Syracuse forwards who are heavy and play an aggressive game...