Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...combat agricultural depression and the hand-to-mouth cash crop system, North Carolina has for months been conducting what its able Governor Oliver Max Gardner calls a "Live-at-Home" campaign. The economic theory behind this program is that the home-living husbandman raises his own food and feed, patronizes local production plants, reduces his dependence upon extrastate sources of supply. A prime feature of the campaign was an essay contest among 800,000 North Carolina school children. Last week Governor Gardner closed the competition by awarding prizes in the House of Representatives...
...other Sikhs had tried to shield him, but now, shouting their defiance and their determination to die rather than move, they wiped away the blood streaming from his mouth. Hysterical Hindus rushed to him bearing cakes of ice to rub the contusions over his brown eyes. The Sikh gave me a bloody smile-and stood up for more...
...Until lip-readers complained, silent cinemactors were wont to mouth irrelevancies, vulgarities, even Hollywood obscenities before the camera...
...Berlin, Joseph Szigert, disconsolate Hungarian miner, swallowed 1 Ib. of dynamite, put a bit more in his mouth, chewed it, blew...
...Baltimore, George Boone found a pellet on the sidewalk. He handed it to his father, Charles Boone, 57, with whom he was strolling. Mr. Boone thought it was candy, put it in his mouth, sucked, chewed. The pellet exploded. It was a Fourth of July torpedo...