Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...astonished," wrote Dr. Berardinelli in the September American Journal of Surgery, "to see a baby, not quite full term. . . . Though the face was covered with dirt, I found no dirt in the mouth or the nostrils. On holding the infant up in the cold air, it started to cry feebly, moving both the arms and the legs. I rushed into the house with the baby, calling for hot water and warm blankets. In the kitchen, I tied the cord, placed the baby in a warm, bath and cleaned off the brown dirt clinging to the body. In the meantime...
...honey given out by the living candle. . . . At this precise moment some slight things happened which did honor to humanity. One of the Whites present at the ceremony fainted; and the other can state that the Prince, the dignitaries . . . the executioners and all the rest breathed through the mouth in short breaths...
...palace. Streamers of crepe, left over from the funeral of King Albert, appeared on all the balconies. Cafè orchestras put away their music, snapped their fiddle cases shut. Hour after hour the bells of Ste. Gudule Cathedral tolled, and the crowds waited patiently by the palace gate. From mouth to mouth stories of the dead Queen began to spread...
...interviews in English and French. To Englishmen Mr. Morgan is well known as the man who built up University College, Hull, from nothing in seven years. Aware that some Canadians dislike to see an Englishman getting Canada's biggest educational plum, he promised: "I shall keep . . . my mouth closed...
...illegible documents. Using a powerful camera, hawk-eyed Expert Farrar last week deciphered this passage: "For the better distinction of the fraternity between themselves, in any foreign country or place, it is resolved that a salutation of the clasp of the hands, together with an immediate stroke across the mouth with the back of the same hand, and a return [salute] with the hand [?] used by the saluted, be hereby established and ordained...