Word: mouthings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comes poor Bilbo will be confronted with the old nigger preacher's text which he said would be found in the 19th Chapter and 16th verse of Duteronimy ∣sic∣ and reads as follows: 'And Jonah said unto the whale, if you had kept your damned mouth shut, this never would have happened...
Last year Physiologist Howard Wilcox Haggard of Yale announced that onion or garlic breath "arises solely from particles retained in the structures of the mouth," could be cured instantly by chloramine, a mouthwash containing chlorine (TIME, July 1, 1935). Last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association two other investigators flatly contradicted Dr. Haggard with a report indicating that the only way to escape onion or garlic breath is to abstain from eating onions or garlic...
...Calvus Elton Richards, both of Cincinnati's General Hospital, were convinced that, when eaten, the essential oils of onion and garlic pass into the blood, are aerated into the lungs and from there breathed out. In proof, they offered the results of an experiment on a patient whose mouth was blocked off from his stomach by a cancer of the esophagus, who could receive nourishment only through a tube in the abdominal wall. Through this tube the experimenters introduced garlic soup. Three hours later the patient's breath began to smell, continued to do so for twelve hours...
...because of laryngeal cancer. This patient's breath was inhaled and exhaled through a tube inserted in the windpipe. Three hours after he ate salad garnished with onion and garlic, the air exhaled through the tube became malodorous. In this instance the breath had no contact with the mouth, throat, esophagus or stomach, must therefore have picked up the contamination in the lungs. Unwilling to trust their own sense of smell entirely, Drs. Blankenhorn & Richards called in technicians, hospital internes and residents who had no idea what the experiments were designed to prove. None of these observers...
...reminds me of the beautiful Russian Crimea," Comrade Troyanovsky told Bay Ridgers. "It reminds me," cried Minister Youssef, "of Rås el-Barr beach in Egypt at the mouth of the Nile. The shallow water suits me because I don't swim, although I like to float. Don't call me 'Excellency' or use my title 'Bey.' Just call me Mr. Youssef." Bay Ridgers soon discovered that Ambassador Troyanovsky serves tea and tinfoil wrapped Soviet candies to almost any caller, that Minister Youssef, although a teetotaler, is good for a Scotch and soda...