Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Schmeling hit Sharkey in the mouth, mashed his lip against a tooth so that it bled. Sharkey spat the blood out contemptuously, stabbed Schmeling with long lefts, shook him with short rights. In the next round Schmeling, clearly outboxed and looking much smaller than Sharkey (he was 9 Ib. lighter) landed less often. Sharkey hit him hard, punching from every angle. Repeatedly Schmeling set himself to throw his only effective punch, a short, straight right to the jaw. Repeatedly Sharkey threw him off balance, mixed him up, hurt him. In the third round Sharkey hit him hard four times...
...Charlestown Prison, Boston, Mrs. Edith Barlow's husband wanted his habitual narcotics. Mrs. Barlow stuffed a goodly supply in a rubber finger cot, placed it in her mouth. As she kissed a friendly prisoner, whom in ruse she called her brother, she tongued the drug-stuffed cot into his mouth. A guard caught them...
Everett Dean Martin, 50, tall, loose-jointed, has poppy, kindly eyes, a mouth like Irvin Cobb's. He became associated with the People's Institute in 1916, was made Director in 1922. Other books: The Behavior of Crowds, Psychology, The Meaning of a Liberal Education, The Mystery of Religion...
...Manhattan, Barney Manger, 57, got in the way of an excavation cave-in, found himself buried under 15 feet of sand. Extricated by emergency squadmen, 35 minutes later, Barney Manger spat sand from his mouth, asked for a "couple of highballs...
Penetrating descriptive force is Author Hazard's on occasion. "He had one of those retreating chins which is nevertheless determined; his teeth turned in, the kind of mouth people have who are afraid to step out and fight in the open but who secretly by hook or by crook are determined to have their own way." Nor is the book without humor, illustrated by the story of an old pastry-lover who interpreted literally and insistently the statement on restaurant menus: "All kinds of pie, 10?...