Word: mouthings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shameful Shreds. Then Tom Corcoran opened his small pink mouth, told his story of the "threat." With cold, lucid, driving fury, he tore Ralph Brewster's tale to shameful shreds...
...doubt it was suicide," said the police officer who found Ray Long in his Beverly Hills bedroom last week, dead in his pajamas, a hole in the roof of his mouth, a small-bore rifle nearby...
...whippings, cross at the loss of its vacation, is not an easy Congress to control. Toss it a controversial measure, keep it idling for several sizzling weeks while a bill is being concocted and such a Congress is more than apt to go on a rampage, foam at the mouth, kick over many a well-laid plan. The job of gentling the Senate, wiping the foam from its angry mouth and keeping it in harness also falls squarely upon the broad stableboy shoulders of Leader Robinson...
Tics, or habitual spasms of certain muscles, are another nervous derangement of childhood. The child may shake his head, nod, frown, scowl, blink, grimace, twist his mouth, sniff, hack, swallow, cough, sigh, hiccough, wiggle his ears, jerk his limbs, scratch himself. Tiqueurs are seldom less than six years old. They usually also suffer from personality disorders?restless-ness, self-consciousness, over-ambitiousness. Curing a child of a tic, Dr. Kanner finds is a difficult task. The more a child's attention is called to his tic, the less likely the tic will disappear. Overactive children should be given quiet recreations...
...only a fortnight before had erroneously picked Max Baer to beat James J. Braddock, sophisticated spectators were surprised by what happened in the first round. Instead of cautiously sizing up an adversary who outweighed him 260 lb. to 196 lb., Louis immediately smashed a right to Carnera's mouth. Because his careless handlers had neglected to give the hulking Italian the mouthpiece which all fighters wear to protect their gums and lips from their teeth, blood began to trickle down Carnera...