Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days later Lieut. Colonel Brehon Somervell of the Army Engineers arrived in Florida to begin work. Then for the first time Florida really woke up to what was going to happen. The canal would take route 13-6: Beginning at the mouth of the St. Johns on the Atlantic it would follow that river inland to Jacksonville and south 64 miles to Palatka at the head of navigation. A few miles south of Palatka, the waterway would turn westward along the Ocklawaha, a St. Johns tributary twistier than the famed Meander. From this stream near Ocala the canal would...
...incest with him. A third was Mina, the dead man's concubine, who said she had "murdered four little ones." Finally there were Beelzebub and hordes of imps who seemed to leave and reenter the energumen's body. The voices of all the demons issued from her mouth, with varying intonation, in English, German and Latin...
...Dictatorial Rowers of the President over All Foreign Trade". If another log, called "Export Interests" had not suddenly appeared and bumped the big log away, the little child night have been drowned. As it was the collision of the two caused a foaming wave of Protest, and as his mouth was open in surprise at the suddenness of it all, he swallowed a good part of that wave. It tasted terribly bitter; with it in his stomach he knew that he could swim no further...
With iron censorship fettering the Press last week, shocking reports circulated by word of mouth throughout the Peninsula and the Isles of Greece. On the Island of Crete, stronghold of foxy onetime Premier Eleutherios Venizelos, a holiday was declared, bonfires were lighted and there was dancing in the streets...
...there are two sides to every question. In order to finish on a reassuring note, to leave us with a happy and renewed faith in the sincerity and honesty of our government, Mr. Sullivan concludes with a few words from the mouth of the President himself.--"The merit system in Civil Service is in no danger at my hands; but on the contrary, I hope that it will be extended and improved during my term as President...