Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hint of Downing was seized upon and expanded as it flew from mouth to mouth, until at last it has actually been met skulking near the back door of history in a form something like this: General Jackson, upon being harangued in Latin, found himself in a position of immense perplexity. It was simply decent for him to reply in the learned language in which he was addressed, but, alas' the Shaksperian modieum of 'small Latin' was all that Old Hickory possessed, and what he must do was clearly to rise to the situation and make the most...
...oldtime Democrat, he cartooned for the World, the Sun, the Commercial Advertiser. His "Senator Tillman's Allegorical Cow" grinned from every fencepost in the Bryan-Taft campaign of 1908. The cow was depicted standing on a map of the U. S., with farmers working to feed her mouth in the West. Wall Street bankers milking her in the East...
...guided the discussions toward the substitution of a humane Georgian building sympathetic with the older and the newer architecture--except the unforgivingly alien Widener Library. Appleton Chapel, on the palette of memory, has a kind of dirty, yellow, jaundiced look. It seems to leave a gritty taste in the mouth...
Sunk. On a reef off Cape Fear, N. C.: the famed Ingomar, once one of the world's finest steel schooners, built by Herreshoff in 1903 for Morton Plant whose skipper Charley Barr, with his customary long cigar in his mouth, was rammed by the Kaiser's Meteor when the Kaiser, at the helm, tried to substitute Royal prerogative for racing etiquet and kept across Ingomar's bow although he did not have right of way. Outmoded as a racer, Ingomar was owned for a while by the late great Marcus Alonzo Hanna's sporting...
Everyone knows married life is intimate, but few ex-wives have ursula-parrotted their intimacies in public. Even if Publisher Harper had not told you World Without End was a true story it would leave a bad taste in your mouth, for you feel that Helen Thomas has reveled in this revelation...