Word: mouthings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Georgia's Governor "Hummon" Talmadge rode past, the President pointedly turned his back to talk to a companion. And when South Carolina's Governor J. Strom Thurmond, the Dixiecrats' candidate for President, doffed his hat in salute, Harry Truman stared him coldly in the eye, his mouth a thin, grim line...
...them a direct rail route from North China to new Nationalist lines just 30 miles above Nanking. Defended "by less than 100,000 second-line troops, Chiang's capital was open to a giant pincer attack at two points: Yangtze River crossings east of the city at the mouth of the Grand Canal, or to the west where they also could mass river craft...
...Close-Mouthed Wives. While the presidents were in their counting house, their wives were in the parlor, discussing bread & honey. At a special session for the ladies, Mrs. Albin C. Bro, whose husband is president of Frances Shinier College, complained that a wife was nothing but a "janitor without portfolio ... At dinner parties, she must display the brilliance of an Einstein . . . Her basic rule in entertaining should be to do everything so well that all the trustees' wives will be proud of her-but not so well that her teas will run the risk of being distinguished . . . She should...
Thus, he argued, the breasty covers not only leave a stale taste in the purchaser's mouth, but are just not good business. On this basis, Armitage continued, book-reading can never compete in the entertainment field with "such superbly packaged rivals as radio, movies, and television...
Preliminary laboratory tests, says Dr.Hyser, have shown a "tremendous" reduction in the number of bacteria in the mouth after the brushless cleaning. Other tests are still to be made, but he is convinced it will keep tartar from forming. It cleans along the gum line, where many cavities start, and between the teeth. About 200 samples of slightly different designs are now being used by other dentists and by Dr. Hyser's patients...