Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...displeased and give no more. Eskimos, who consider animals much wiser than men, believe that seals are perpetually thirsty because they inhabit salt water. Accordingly when they kill a seal the first thing to do is douse a dipperful of fresh water into the seal's mouth. If this amenity is scrupulously observed, other seals will come and be killed in order to receive the refreshing draught...
...didn't want that. But Mr. Epstein told me-" "Who's Mr. Epstein?" "He has a store. He told me it would do just the other way around." "What is your personal position as to the merits of the bill?" Elmer opened his mouth, shut it, finally grinned. "I'm neutral." Next important witnesses were Salesman Herron, his Associated Gas & Electric Boss Edward J. O'Brien, and O'Brien's Boss Ursel E. Beach, head of Associated Gas & Electric Co.'s securities department. Typical excerpts from their testimony: Herron (admitting he had taken...
...birth the bigger & better AAA conceived in the AAAmendments. Bee Control. Senator Carter Glass withered one amendment with ridicule. Among numerous commodities to be controlled and prorated, the spunky little Virginian last fortnight discovered queen bees. Bobbing up in the Senate, he rasped from the side of his mouth: "I note here that it is proposed to confer upon the Secretary of Agriculture the right to bring about birth control among bees. ... I have a good many bees. I do not know how many of them are queens; but I am just a little curious to know...
Both sturdy sons of thrifty peasant sires, M. Laval and Mussolini find themselves opposed in blood and bone to the methods of one born with the gold spoon of Hyde Park in his mouth. Their purposes are to keep their monies firm on gold and to make cheaper the necessities of life. In Italy these many years, Il Duce has been hoeing this hard row, and last week Premier Laval joined him. Of the 28 new French emergency decrees, eight seek to make necessities of life easier to buy, and the other 20 effect economies and new taxes designed...
...Mississippi River should leap in flood from its channel at Memphis and lash cross-country to a new sea mouth somewhere in Florida, the chaos and horror would be as indescribable as they were in China last week when the mighty Hwangho River finally made good its threat (TIME, July 22) to quit the channel in which it had flowed since...