Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dreamt in the night, and a singular dream it was too. For I was married, hut to an old hag who was burning my humidor and thwarting all pleas for justice in the matter. Then suddenly in the dream she died having uttered the last word and sealed my mouth to an humble and eternal silence...
...what a futile gesture to pretend that the liquor traffic can be stopped by putting the sponge at the mouth instead of at the source of the flow. The bootlegger's assistant who gave the police the tip will probably go free, yet he is the loser, for he has no job. The bootlegger will get a new assistant and Michigan can drink toasts freely for another six months, as all other colleges and citizens...
...Rente sat sipping coffee in a Havana cafe he sneezed, sneezed again, sneezed a third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh time, coughed, gasped, spat out a bullet, sighed with relief. The bullet was smooth-polished after spending 15 years lodged in the roof of Sr. Rente's mouth, whence surgeons had dared not remove it. Long ago they predicted it would make Sr. Rente an idiot or a paralytic. He is not yet either...
...lies the palm-broidered key called Treasure Island by its fun-loving owner Cartoonist John Tinney McCutcheon of the Chicago Tribune. Fishing is finer in Nassau than at Bermuda. There is good trolling for sharks, king fish, barracuda, Spanish mackerel, grouper, amberjack right off the mouth of Nassau Harbor. Only 20 mi. away is Andros Island which boasts the world's best bonefishing. Seldom over 2 ft. in length, the bonefish ranks among the world's gamiest. It feeds in extremely shallow water with its tail in the air, has two large bony plates in its mouth instead...
...integrity and purity of morals, standing erect in the midst of the moral ruin which surrounds her, in order that she may preserve the chastity of the nuptial union from being denied by this foul stain, raises her voice in token of Divine ambassadorship and through our mouth proclaims anew...