Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...universities, which is second only to the boat race in a importance, resulted this year in a pointless draw. The Oxford side included a Russian player, Prince Obolensky, who is the fastest wing-threequarter in Great Britain to-day, and many a Cambridge man's heart came into his mouth whenever he saw the ball passed into Obolensky's hands. Fortunately, however, the tackling of the Cambridge side was deadly and the Russian never had a chance to use his pace...
...gentlemen compete for the favor of a lady, and the one succeeds and the other is rejected, and (as will sometimes happen) matter damaging to the successful rival's credit reaches the ear of the defeated, it is held by plain men of no pretensions that his mouth is, in the circumstance, almost necessarily closed. Your church and Damien's were in Hawaii upon a rivalry to do well: to help, to edify, to set Divine examples. You having (in one huge instance) failed, and Damien succeeded, I marvel it should not have occurred to you that...
...were permissible in the Senate," Senator Glass growled out of the corner of his mouth, "to say that any man who would asperse the integrity and veracity of Woodrow Wilson is a coward, if it were permissible to say that his charge is not only malicious but positively mendacious, that I would be glad to say. ... I resent it ... as an infamous libel...
...other welldoing, Mrs. Rockefeller set aside a certain amount of her own Aldrich money for art. As a collector's budget, it was no vast sum. All the pictures that she has since given to the Rhode Island School of Design, to Fisk University, to Dart mouth College and to the Museum of Modern Art-about 1,000 important items-probably did not cost anywhere near the $1,166,400 that Andrew Mellon paid the Soviet Government in 1934 for one Raphael Madonna (TIME, Aug. 27, 1934 et seq.) Yet for her money Mrs. Rockefeller was able...
...public demonstrations Whistler Garth trains rigorously. He drinks only lukewarm water because anything colder will tighten the membranes of his mouth. He avoids drafts as scrupulously as if he were a sensitive high-priced singer, never brushes his teeth before whistling because, as he explains, the natural film-coating provides a necessary lubricant. A dentist tends his teeth each month or so, however, because "I couldn't whistle with false teeth, at least not a solo." Says he: "I never have known what to style myself. Perhaps I am a whistlist...