Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...colonizing ambitions. His most famed colony, on which he never set foot, was Virginia. Thence he imported and did his best to popularize smoking tobacco. (Biographer Thompson sets down as apocryphal the story of Ralegh's alarmed servant, who seeing smoke coming from his" master's mouth! dashed a bucket of water over him.) He spent ?40,000 trying to get Virginia started, finally handed it over to a London company...
Lastly arise the "Gimme Groups" such as the American Legion, Van Zandt's "Veterans of Foreign Wars" and the publicity seeking "D. A. R." Mouth-filling, ear-catching, windy phrases reeking with "patriotism", "Americanism", "loyalty", "love of your country" and the rest; meaning nothing, with no single breath of sincerity in them, with but one thought in mind and that material gain, either in the medium of cash or power through votes, are the tricks of the trade to these groups. The breath of their life is to support dollar patriots and to receive in return the support...
...Conference of Mayors, the Great Lakes Harbor Association and the League of Wisconsin Municipalities, the new alliance seems to open the way toward the U. S. Senate, where he would one day like to sit. Ominously, however, Governor Phil La Follette had not, up to this week, opened his mouth on the subject of Hoan for Mayor...
...Senator Borah's mouth this proclamation meant only one thing: The Republican platform must be written, the nominee must be picked, with due consideration for the liberal principles which he for a generation had espoused. Said Candidate Borah last week in Youngstown: "It is a question of the performance of the highest duty offered Republican citizens and you may forget me, if you desire, but not certain men, whose faces are toward the dawn, who believe in progress, who believe in liberalism and who want to return their Republican party to power...
Late that afternoon Dr. Ruxton sent not for his usual charwoman but for a Mrs. Hampshire, a humble soul who was working off a debt to the doctor and might keep her mouth shut. She found, as she afterwards testified, the house a shambles, with straw littered in all the rooms and on the stairs, carpets spread out in the rain in the back yard, and the bath tub stained a curious yellow most difficult to scrub clean. After she had done her work, Mrs. Hampshire had pressed upon her by her Oriental creditor a blue serge suit with bloodstains...