Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator Key Pittman, chairman of the U. S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The Senator, being about to excoriate Japan, handed out advance copies of his speech in Washington. Japanese correspondents slapped this on the cables, and Japanese editors unwittingly broke the release date. Thus, before Key Pittman opened his mouth to keynote, Tokyo had read his speech. Headlined the Tokyo Asahi: "CHAIRMAN OF SENATE'S FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE OFFICIALLY ATTACKS JAPAN-Japanese Foreign Office Says 'Let him roar.' " In the main Senator Pittman's theme was that Japan is doing China wrong and that as soon...
...naval veteran of more actual combat experience than many an officer acquires in a lifetime of service." Early marked as a sound fellow, Togo was one of twelve young officers sent to England to get his training straight from the lion's mouth. To his British instructors too he seemed sound. "He was not what you would call brilliant, but a great plodder, slow to learn, but very sure when he had learnt; and he wanted to learn everything!" When his mates called him "Johnny Chinaman" he took it in good part, said nothing, plugged ahead. After two years...
...have time to laugh about in the first. Funniest of all, perhaps, is a time-saving device that automatically feeds workers while they work. It is tried out on Charlie, and it runs amuck. It rasps an ear of corn against his teeth, it shoves bolts into his mouth, and it bashes in his face with its automatic wiper. But this choice is just a matter of opinion, and besides, clumsy word accounts fall hopelessly short of Chaplin's elusive mirth. Drop whatever you're doing, and go see for yourself...
Since 1931, however, the hardest anti-Roosevelt whisper to down has been the one about his health. One day last April an Associated Press photographer snapped the President at a baseball game yelling and popping peanuts into his mouth. Worse was a photograph he took in which a trick of light had made the President look ghastly pale. Its publication brought the White House a storm of anxious letters inquiring about the President's health. Distraught, Secretary Early declared a ban on all candid cameras around the White House...
...Delafield (Mrs. Arthur Paul Dashwood), a nice mixture of Jane Austen, Punch and her own "provincial lady," writes with malice aforethought but manages to leave a pleasantly salty aftertaste. Seldom frighteningly clever, she preaches entertaining sermonettes that make her listeners laugh out of both sides of the mouth, go chuckling home to Sunday dinner...