Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Washington Lawyer Frank Hogan last week heard these words from the mouth of Chief Justice Alfred Adams
...college provides; and that those facilities are not functioning at a maximum of efficiency through the neglect of the students, a neglect due mainly to the fact that busy students are not sufficiently aware of the physiological necessity of exercise. To answer Mr. Jones out of his own mouth, Harvard does not want humanity to be deprived of a genius before he has reached his prime due to some insidious malady that could have been prevented had the mental giant developed proper physical habits at a formative stage...
...self-righteousness, filled with unconscious new ideals, answers through the mouth of Judge Ralph smith: "You chiseled every last dime you could. I don't see why you didn't choke on the food you got. I don't see how you could swallow it. This is unforgivable. I can't comprehend anything...
...cases the Inquirer had originally mentioned. When the Attorney General persisted in elaborate asides to the jury, Lawyer Evans infuriated him by leaning back, hooking his thumbs in his vest and observing: "I have the bulge on you, Mr. Margiotti. I can talk to the jury after your mouth is closed...
...always spent her summers in Ireland, and still keeps up Bowen's Court, her family's 18th Century country house. Because of her mother's early death and her father's remarriage, Elizabeth Bowen left home at 19, lived with relations or hand-to-mouth in European hotels and boardinghouses. When she was 23 she married one Alan Cameron, went to live outside Oxford, and settled down to write...