Word: mouthings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Five months ago, Herman ("Hummon") Talmadge couldn't have been elected to the office of dogcatcher in Georgia. Then . . . Mr. Truman started yapping about Civil Rights. Every time he opened his mouth for one of those monotonous speeches, it meant thousands of votes for "Hummon." Don't forget that the South is basically defensive in its thinking. It knows it has no friends outside the South, so it thinks it can counter its enemies by electing people like Long and Talmadge . . . SEATON OWENS Marietta...
...each of the stiff-backed chairs in Cincinnati's old Music Hall was a foot-square poster labeled "The Champ." It was a picture of a fierce-eyed John L. Lewis, a cigar cocked in his mouth. The 3,000 delegates to the United Mine Workers Convention smiled in anticipation. John always gave them a roaring, rousing performance, and they knew who would catch it this year: the President...
...first score came at the start of the second periods when center forward Hans Estin tapped in a tally during a melee in front of the Army goal mouth. Captain Phil Potter sank a penalty shot seconds after the second half opened when an Army fullback touched the ball with his hands. The final Crimson score came on a glittering kick by Estin which barely eluded the Army goalie...
Only a Landslide. In traditionally Republican Iowa, the story was much the same. Aging, ailing Senator George Wilson, handicapped by a mouth operation which had cost him his lower teeth, was losing ground fast to the Democrats' ex-Senator Guy Gillette. In a year when Iowans had already shown their dissatisfaction with the ins by dumping Republican Governor Robert Blue (TIME, June 21), it looked as though Guy Gillette, who has' always had a big following in both parties, could be stopped only by a thundering Dewey landslide...
...ever heard of-found herself in the studio of His Majesty's Voice recording company. The famed star of the Milan Opera, Madame Margherita Grandi, was making a recording of the sleepwalking scene from Verdi's Macbeth. Suddenly, right at the end, Madame Grandi shut her mouth, and Dorothy took over. She sang three notes-F, A flat, and top D flat. For her pains, she got a slight bow from Madame Grandi and 5 guineas ($21.15). Then she went home. She was to keep her three notes and 5 guineas a secret...