Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Listerine advertising implies that when put into a body cavity Listerine has an action similar to that in a test tube experiment; it fails to state that conditions in the mouth are not comparable with those in laboratory test tubes. No mouth wash is completely efficient in sterilizing the cavities of the mouth, nose and respiratory system, bacteriologically speaking...
...time. . . . It blew some of the business boys and bankers right through the bus windows. They managed to scramble back again however. I called a conference . . . [and] issued a statement assuring everybody that the storm had passed and not to worry. Well, no sooner did the words leave my mouth than another gale came up. Then it began to snow. ... I looked around and saw that one of the boys, Charlie Curtis, had a coating of ice on his moustache. Claudius Huston had both ears nipped and . . . Andy Mellon . . . was sitting on the floor of the bus rubbing...
...front of his house one afternoon last week. A dark blue sedan drew up to the curb. One of the three occupants shouted: "Hi, Billy!" Boss Rooney, expecting his own car, turned. Three shots racketed through the street. Boss Rooney slumped to his knees. His cigar fell from his mouth and rolled along the sidewalk, with him sprawling after it. He was the second labor leader to be murdered in Chicago in five weeks...
Actor Menjou makes "son of a ?" sound even more opprobrious and gutter-snipish than the term sounded in the mouth of Osgood Perkins who created the managing editor's part in the Broadway Front Page of onetime Chicago Newshawks Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. Items more impolite than any which have previously appeared in cinema are faithfully reproduced from the play's stage version. The scene, which changes rarely through the picture, is the press room of a "Mythical Kingdom's" criminal courts building. Eight reporters are gathered to report the execution of a murderer. Hildy Johnson, the reporter...
...Woman, Down out of the sky into Akron one day last week came a young woman with two frozen toes, crackling ears and blood in her mouth. She was Miss Frankie Renner, 30, secretary-treasurer of Robbins Flying Service and of Aviation College Inc. Her physical condition did not make her unhappy for it was merely the result of climbing in a Waco biplane to an apparent altitude of 33,000 ft.?perhaps 3,000 ft. higher than Ruth Nichols' climb last fortnight, and a new women's record...