Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Teachers are criticized for not attempting to make their courses as interesting and stimulating as they might be. Grow-faculty disinterestedness. The Darting student apathy can be traced to this mouth summarizes the undergraduate attitude to studies as a "game the object of which is to see how little you can make the teacher think you are capable of leaning...
Manager Art Ross hardly opened his mouth. Such Bruin stalwarts as Eddie Shore, Bill Cowley, Cooney Weiland, and Gordon Pettinger were absent. Even Tiny Thompson didn't seem to care how many times the puck was shot past him. Rather he played the clown most the time and purposely left the net undefended on many occasion to engage in mad scrambles several feet out. At one time he carried the puck to center ice before losing it. At the time someone mentioned that Tiny was once the fastest member of the Bruins on skates. He did pretty well today even...
...rheumy nose. Suddenly he ceased droning: "And what do you think of "Thucydides's method of art. Mr. Appleworth?" There was a silence, so I thought. Harold nudged me, and I opened my eyes: "Oh you were speaking to me? What is what?" Professor Bell stared and twisted his mouth as I once saw one of Clyde Beatty's lions do. "I asked you what ideas you had on the method of Thucydides as compared to that of Herodotus. "Why it was it was different." "How?" The word exploded in the classroom. The professor followed with a violent gust from...
...Again, h-h-how?" questioned Professor Bell amid the hesitating start of a sneeze. Harold opened his mouth and sniff-sneezed. This was too much. "Have you a cold, Mr. Wilson? Or is there some pepper floating in the air?" At the end of an eternity the bell tolled four...
Unabashed in writing purple passages, Author Gilligan is at his best in communicating scenes of disorder like those that mark the beginning of the strike: "In and out of hovels and flats, from boardinghouses to cheap hotels . . . the word ran from mouth to mouth: mouths of thieves, mouths of safebreakers, mouths of pickpockets, mouths of rowdies, mouths of the half-dead, mouths of the gamblers, mouths of the whores. . . . Throngs of hoodlums moved in secret, waiting for some one deed to start a great one." As a result, readers are not likely to have much confidence in his portraits...