Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...okapi become accustomed to civilization before moving him. At last, late this May, the Buta okapi boarded a side-wheel steamer at Stanleyville and started down the Congo River. At Leopoldville, where the rapids begin, he was shuttled into a boxcar, and at Matadi, at the mouth of the Congo, on July i went aboard a Dutch ship bound for Antwerp...
Last week Dr. Blair and Congo arrived in Manhattan, sped up to The Bronx where Congo was put into a quarantined cage until 15 days prove he has no hoof & mouth disease. He kicked up his heels, seemed in fine fettle, enjoyed a nice mess of elm leaves. One of only four okapis in captivity.* Congo discovered his next-door neighbor was Doreen, the bongo, a rare West-African antelope that, until his arrival, was the zoo's most valuable specimen. Commented Dr. Blair, "Oh. her nose doesn't seem much out of joint...
...monthly called Dental Digest to which 22,000 dentists subscribe. Instead of using his own magazines to present his Plan, and thus risk offending the profession, Dr. Ryan used the Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology, issued last week. To implement his Plan he required a chart of the human mouth which all dentists in the U. S. might understand. None of the 38 dental schools of this country had such a chart. So Dr. Ryan designed his own. On a grey background the 32 teeth are shown 1) as they look from the front, with their roots outlined...
...Mouth habits leave permanent and identifiable marks on the teeth, observed Dr. Ryan. He listed some-Nervous habits: toothpick biting, fingernail biting, grinding teeth, clenching the jaws in sleep, thrusting the tongue against the teeth, lip biting, biting on the ear pieces of eyeglasses, biting paperclips, pencils, fountain pens; Occupational habits: thread-biting in sewing, pin-&-needle habit (dressmakers), holding nails in teeth, biting the tips of cigars, clarinet and tuba playing, holding cord between teeth; Miscellaneous habits which mark teeth characteristically include: pipe smoking, using.cigaret holder, chewing cigars, opening tops of bottles with teeth, cracking nuts, chewing bones...
Under five feet, pumpkin-cheeked, with a button nose and a buttonhole mouth "nearly in the centre of his visage," a double chin that hung like an udder, deep red hair, high-domed forehead, big ears and plenty of fat. set off by the loudest clothes to be found in a loud century, Gibbon's personal appearance was the most noticeable of the handicaps reputed to have combined to produce the perfect historian...