Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Huntingdon Valley Presbyterian Church, rests after Sunday service, sleeps with black goggles to shield his candid blue eyes, which are abnormally sensitive to light. For recreation, he interprets handwriting and plays such hymns as Oh Happy Day that Fixed My Choice and I Was a Wandering Sheep on his mouth organ...
...that afternoon for a cruise to Jamestown before returning to Washington, the shouting crowd on shore turned to Postmaster General Farley, who had been left behind, and demanded a speech. Then came the only crass note in a week-end of unsullied idealism. Bellowed Boss Farley, hands cupped to mouth...
...paid, will then wipe out the obligation forever in 1996 A.D. Up & down England's countryside tithe riots have been frequent, and police seeking to find and seize cattle and other possessions of farmers who refuse to pay have disguised themselves as yokels, wandered about with straw in mouth on snooping expeditions, have been roughly handled when unmasked by genuine yokels...
Fallible Wires. By no means are A. S. T. M. tests infallible. After satisfying A. S. T. M. specification for strength and flexibility, galvanized annealed steel wires were used for a suspension bridge over Mt. Hope Bay between Bristol and Ports mouth, R. I. Before the bridge was completed the cables inexplicably began to fray. The bridge was dismantled and rebuilt with galvanized cold-drawn steel wires. After yanking and bending in every which way the wires which failed, W.H. Swanger and G. F. Wohlgemuth of the U. S. Bureau of Standards learned that something had happened on the bridge...
...mouth is a joke, a leer, a sewer, Her teeth lacerate her tongue when she speaks...