Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Here is the fruit of his labour, hold up thy Head, Tommy. Look you Gentlewoman, is he not as like, as if he was spit out of his mouth...
...edited by Joseph Wright, Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of Comparative Philology in the University of Oxford, under spit (Vol. V, pp. 669-670), he will find other examples of old English usage: "that barn's as like his fadder as an he'd been spit out of his mouth." . . . The same saying is to be found in France: "C'est son père tout craché;" ". . . y reconnut man portrait tout craché," (Voltaire, Crépinade; see craché, Vol. I, p. 878, Dictionnaire de la Langue Française, edited by E. Littré; Paris...
...India her new Constitution then made "The Deal" with Mussolini and next placed the Royal Navy on a $525,000,000 Rearmament footing, last week showed King George and Queen Elizabeth the new type gas mask of which 45,000,000 are being provided. It encloses both nose and mouth, is fairly comfortable. His Majesty, pinching his own nose together jocularly with his fingers, spoke of how the World War type of mask used to pinch noses. "He spoke while demonstrating," reported an attendant, "and the strong nasal tones emitted rocked the royal party with laughter...
Shortly after noon, venerable Auctioneer Nathaniel Bacon Kinsey, clad in frock coat and beaver hat, climbed a platform, whanged a bell, started knocking down dogs. A farmer wanted $50 for his wire-haired "or keep your mouth shut." Another owner demanded "$100 or nothing" for a bird dog. Neither got it. "I am damned tired of these high-valued dogs," hollered Auctioneer Kinsey. "Get me some dogs I can sell for fifty cents. Bring them up here." Setters went for two or three dollars each. Ragged farmers who needed the money tearfully parted with prized hounds (see cut). Children...
...shore. The cave which yielded up Dr.Steward's fossil infant is now 365 ft. above the lake level. Yet the fact that the skeleton was imbedded in lake gravel on the cave floor indicated that the cave was inhabited soon after the water retreated from its mouth. Bits of charcoal showed the inhabitants to be fire makers. Dr. Steward viewed the skeleton as an important link between the well-known Basket Makers and the mysterious, much earlier "Folsom Men" whose bodily remains have not been found although they left an abundance of their characteristic "Folsom points"-stone weapons with...