Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Deterred not the least by an interruption from New York's Caroline O'Day, who pointed out that her good friend Frances Perkins was born near Boston, Mr. Hoffman suggested that it would be well if Madam Perkins "kept her mouth shut." He purported to quote President Roosevelt to the effect that if Communism broke out in the U. S., it would first reveal itself in Detroit, announced that the Russians had already renamed Detroit in honor of John L. Lewis-presumably Lewisgrad...
...five-day, 35-hour week, West Virginia's boyish Senator Rush Dew Holt (he turned 32 this week) asked: "If the Federal Government proceeds from this bill to legislation to regulate all wages and hours, what will happen to industrial democracy?" Grabbing the cigar from his mouth, Boss Lewis exploded, "Is the Senator trying to be humorous...
Both Mrs. Keyes and Mrs. Copeland write with the little finger delicately curved, with the half-shut eyes and far away look of those who have inhabited Mt. Olympus. But Author Keyes's book is three times as long, illustrated with mouth-watering photographs of the Washington Great, and keyed in a gaily professional manner which reflects the fact that Mrs. Keyes was long a regular contributor to Good Housekeeping and the author of several novels. Her book is full of adventures, and all the adventures are parties. She had her first adventure (a White House reception) when...
...sandwich-munching congregation gawped, Preacher Lee launched his sermon, using no notes, expounding God and Christ chapter by chapter from the Bible. He was still in Genesis when the dietitian brought him dinner, which afforded a digression. "I never liked spinach. . . . And I never liked turnips," he cried, his mouth full of them. "Hallelujah...
Three days later in his west side Manhattan hotel, weak from influenza and nervous collapse, aged Critic Henderson stopped writing an essay on Pianist Josef Hofmann, placed a .38 revolver in his mouth and with one bullet completed the ending of an epoch in U. S. letters...