Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...neck should be freely flushed with antiseptics (half-strength tincture of iodine is good), grease removed with turpentine or ether, dirt-begrimed tissue cut away, bleeding stopped. Bandages may be applied for 24 hours to limit oozes. After that "no dressing is necessary. . . . Dressings about the openings of the mouth, eyes and nose are particularly objectionable, as they retain decomposing secretions in contact with the wound." Infection or disfigurement, declared Dr. Babcock, "from an incised or even the average lacerated wound of the face or the scalp, as a rule, indicates a slipshod operation or lack of surgical skill...
...Indiana. His older brother went to the war and came back minus an arm. But Robert might have waited for the draft if his hero-brother had not stolen his girl from him. When that happened, he went off hoping for death at the first cannon's mouth. Long before he got into his first battle he learned that there was more to soldiering than stopping a bullet. A Creole camp-follower in Nashville did her share in dimming Diana's image. And in his first skirimish Robert found there were too many things happening to think about...
Back home after two years, Alfred found himself regarded more as an undesirable alien than a returning hero, tried futilely to explain why he was no Communist, but finally kept his mouth shut after a call from an agent of the Department of Justice. His girl had married a wealthy logging operator's son from Seattle, but now she suggested that if he would get a job in Russia she would go with him. Alfred declined. One Russian exile was enough. Meanwhile, even though the bottom had dropped out of his world, where there was any democracy left, there...
...general order as "putting on the heat." Although California Packing was only trying to stay within the law with a policy of one-price-to-all, A. & P. clerks made strenuous efforts to substitute other brands for Del Monte, buying was cut to a hand-to-mouth basis to annoy California Packing as much as possible, and orders were placed through brokers so that California Packing had to pay a 4% commission anyway. 'This is not spite," said Grocer Parr. "This is business...
...still had a year to serve. Lenin's first letter to her after their separation is a lengthy dissertation on intraParty politics. When Krupskaya was released she joined Lenin's exile in Europe, and for the next 16 years they led a lonely, hand-to-mouth life, supporting themselves by translations, lectures, literary work, trying to patch together a working revolutionary organization. Once, in a letter to his mother, Lenin allowed his discouragement to appear: "My life goes on as usual and fairly lonely . . . and unfortunately pretty senseless...