Word: mouthings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...matter how often he puts his foot in his mouth, President Truman has a saving humility and lack of pretense. Last week he demonstrated those plain virtues again. As he scraped for dollars and food to aid Europe, he recalled another time when he was hard-pressed: his 1919 venture as partner in a Kansas City haberdashery. He told the Commerce Department's advisory committee on small business: "I know some of the troubles of small business. I was in one myself. ... It took me 20 years to get out from under that experience, and I would hate...
...bewildering mixture of disarming candor and foot-in-mouth politics, it was one of the most extraordinary press conferences since Harry Truman entered the White House. The President began by remarking that he had no special announcements to make; he threw himself open for questions. Up popped the Buffalo Evening News's white-haired Jim Wright. "Mr. President," he said, "I have been trying to reason out this food conservation program at breakfast this morning without an egg. Are you going to have the chickens go without grain on the seventh day of the week...
...claim on $37 million worth of Indo-Chinese gold captured by the Japanese. There was a chance that $115 million worth of German assets might be kept out of the Treasury for use abroad. All told, it was probably enough to keep Europe going on a hand-to-mouth basis until the first of the year...
...tactics grows through many rounds of grizzly fistienffs, and he finally learns that to court his love, he must make with a right to her muzzle. Add some good tunes to his slaps, and the result is tops. Clumping about in a Northwoods that would make a lumberman's mouth water, Bonge and the bears paw one another sufficiently to reach anybody's funnybone. Scenes of bears winding through a rough and tumble square dance to the yells of a hillbilly caller, and slapping their sweethearts against a background of valentines and fir trees, are all bright-eyed Disney...
After redeeming a book, a man may apply for two new seats outside the cheering section for any post-Dart-mouth engagement in spite of the fact that application deadlines may have already passed. William J. Bingham '16, director of the H.A.A. indicated last night that the tickets men would thus receive would be better than any thing an usher would have to offer after evicting a couple from Section...