Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After putting his foot in his mouth while speaking to the press during the Washington Disarmament Conference, President Warren Gamaliel Harding, to save diplomatic embarrassment, ordered that correspondents must put their questions to him in writing. Calvin Coolidge perfected this technique by inventing "a White House spokesman" to whom his words must be attributed. Last week when Franklin Roosevelt wanted to read U. S. Business and Labor a lecture on "sabre-rattling" (see p. 63), comparing them to the bad boys of European politics in a way that might have provoked protests from "friendly nations," the "spokesman" reappeared. He also...
...Death"), has collected tips for the benefit of heavy smokers who wish to reform. In step with a recent upsurge of articles on smoking, in the current issue of Scribner's, Mr. Furnas offers several anti-smoking aids for what they are worth. Samples: 1) wash out the mouth with a weak solution of silver nitrate which "makes a smoke taste as if it had been cured in sour milk"; 2) chew candied ginger, gentian, or camomile; 3) to occupy the hands smoke a prop cigaret...
...motorists develop what Dr. Fabing calls an "anxiety neurosis in miniature," mainly centred in an uncertain right foot, but with other noticeable effects. On himself, Dr. Fabing noted "a quickening of my pulse by 25 beats ... a pilomotor [hair-on-end] response on my forearms, a dryness of the mouth, a sudden excessive sweating of the palms a feeling of epigastric distress...
...running toward a medium-sized bomb when it burst. My mouth was open and the shock was so violent that I was unable to breathe for some seconds, and indeed thought that my throat had been torn away, and that I had only another half-minute or so to live. I did not notice that I had been wounded until I felt that my throat was intact, and managed to start breathing again...
...Progressive Education Association, it is financing films and radio programs on social problems, creating a new high-school curriculum pointed toward social change. In 1913 the huge Rockefeller and Carnegie foundations were investigated by a suspicious Congress. But today critics who looked the Rockefeller gift horse in the mouth in 1913 are sorry to lose the old animal, for G. E. B. has written its Q. E. D. under many a progressive idea...