Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan, Mrs. May Birn, 42, died of bloodpoisoning contracted after an accident. The accident: while both slept, her finger strayed into her husband's mouth...
...work, fists, boots, bats, lighted cigars may jog the suspect's memory. Scars or bruises are explained by saying the prisoner "fell downstairs." But Lavine tells of other refinements: "I have seen a man beaten on the Adam's apple so that blood spurted from his mouth; I have seen another put in a dentist's chair and held there while the dentist, who seemed to enjoy his job, ground down a sound molar with a rough burr." Sometimes prisoners are threatened with death, shot at with blank cartridges...
...breeze hit them full at the harbor-mouth. Passing Eastern Point, Bluenose was five lengths ahead, hoisted along by her larger jib topsail. Thebaud pulled up a little after they had rounded the first mark; she was sailing at her best angle, with booms well inboard. Bluenose was still ahead at the third mark, but here Capt. Charley Johnson, sailing Thebaud because Capt. Ben Pine was sick, showed seamanship that baffled Capt. Angus Walters on Bluenose. With a windward tack ahead, Capt. Walters did what any sailor might do-he close-hauled to port. Thebaud came up astern and after...
...appearance he is taller than his Ohio colleague, short Senator Simeon Davison Fess, or his No. 1 political sponsor, medium-sized Postmaster General Brown. A wide mouth, strong nose, sharp eyes under wrinkly brows, a fine head of wavy dark hair touched with grey combine to give him a certain cinematic handsomeness. In dress he is quiet, neat, careful about his neckties...
...Named after the schooner in Longfellow's "Wreck of the Hesperus." At the mouth of Gloucester harbor is ''the reef of Norman...