Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House corridors to petition Speaker Longworth for Unemployment insurance. He would not see them. Some of them straggled up into the House gallery. From that vantage point one Fred Kearns of Pittsburgh arose, began to shout: "I protest! I protest against the arrest of -." Over his wide-open mouth was clapped the hand of Chief Doorkeeper Bert Kennedy. Angry cries from the House floor: "Throw him out! Shut him up!" Two policemen ejected him while other Reds were shooed off the Capitol grounds...
...have wished his death in that event. The Cleveland Plain Dealer went so far in its news columns as to remark: "Is it possible that whoever killed Bill Potter considered . . . that in the ensuing hubbub . . . there would be a not too gentle warning to Listen Schooley to keep his mouth shut...
...routine of orchestra work 28 years ago. His lovely finespun Mort de Tintagiles had already started critics questioning whether, with such meticulous regard for line, he could rightly be classified with Impressionist Debussy. The sensuous Pagan Poem came soon after, inspired by the sorcerous incantations Virgil put in the mouth of a Thessalian girl to draw her truant lover home...
...Hear, o ye heavens, the things I speak; let the earth give ear to the words of my mouth...
Wishful of drawing no conclusions himself. Fort constantly trembles on the verge of dark sayings. When he cannot contain himself, instead of putting the suggestion in his own mouth he says: "The expression is. . . ." The expression is, then, that a hitherto unnoticed swan was discovered in Manhattan's Central Park near the place and time Dorothy Arnold (famed lost girl) disappeared; that the stars, in stead of being inconceivably far away and wandering individually are probably within rocket-shot and set in a revolving shell (Ptolemaic astronomy;. Says Fort: ''Of course the stars are near...