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Word: mouthing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kernels of corn for the hungry child, the drippings from the mouth of the merciful mule! . . . These people are going to suffer beyond the power of human language to portray. . . . When did these picayunish objections to feeding the hungry first appear? They appeared when the income tax payers became afraid of an increase in taxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Misery Question | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

...witness will testify to the contrary--indeed, completely to the contrary. That the obnoxious rioting consisted in the untwisting of a few bulbs, that the arrested parties were seated at the time of their arrest, that the supposed "interference with an officer" was but a gentlemanly word-of-mouth remonstrance at what a bystander considered to be an unjust arrest--all this does not seem to have come to the ear of the indignant contributor. So he thunders, "Ecrasez l'infame...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Volleyed and Thundered | 2/19/1931 | See Source »

...Irish Statesman by Poet-Painter George ("AE") Russell. Great lover, soldier, sailor, singer, toreador, tycoon, jockey, prizefighter, automobile racer, aviator, farmer, scholar, Mickey Mouse lives in a world in which space, time and the laws of physics are null. He can reach inside a bull's mouth, pull out his teeth and use them for castanets. He can lead a band or play violin solos; his ingenuity is limitless; he never fails. Best of Mickey Mouse competitors is Koko the Clown, of Fleischer Bros.' Out-of-the-Inkwell Series. Others: Paul Terry's Aesop's Fables...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Regulated Rodent | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

...prettiness. Last week the newest Epstein, a 6-ft. marble called Genesis, was exhibited at the Leicester Galleries. The storm broke the next morning. The statue is of a heavy, brooding, pregnant female figure with the synthetic Mongolian features of most Epsteins- low forehead, slanting eyes, Negroid nose, mouth and chin. The upper part of the erect torso is realistically rounded. The lower part is an. exaggerated rotundity of all anatomy. The thighs (they are cut off just above the knees) are portly kegs. Focus of all the curves is the gestation. Commented the Daily Express: "You white foulness! This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mechanical Muralist | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

...live by himself. In his way both a dandy and an ascetic, Baudelaire astonished even the Bohemians. His first mistress was a hideous, squint-eyed, consumptive Jewess off the streets. Then he met Jeanne Duval, a beautiful Negress, and lived with her many stormy months. His hand-to-mouth existence was complicated by laudanum, which he took to stifle intestinal pains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Baudelaire with Loving Care* | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

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