Word: mouthings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first step had been taken down the long road, but it was a stride that stopped in its tracks and only new begins to move along again. Some time in the next mouth the committee finally will be appointed. It will reconsider the merits of the Active ties Center as against those of Dr. Arlie V. Bock's Medical Center, Dean Joseph Hudnut's Music and Arts Center, and whatever other plans may move to combine the two projects. As for the Medical Center, there can be no question as to the need for enlarged, modernized, and more conveniently located...
...even a cheering group of schoolchildren in Jefferson City could persuade the President to talk. The teen-agers shouted: "Make a two-hour speech; make it a full holiday!" But Harry Truman just chuckled, shook his head, clamped his hand over his mouth...
...advertisements held news, too. Autumn was the time for auctions. The Pulaski County (Indiana) Democrat heralded John Manning's public sales, three miles west of Medaryville. Manning offered two horses (smooth mouth), a white-face cow (6 years old, bred in August), 25 head of hogs, assorted farm implements, an iron butchering kettle and two electric fence chargers. The Palace Theater's advertisement in the Hills (Minn.) Crescent ballyhooed a new picture-Johnny Mack Brown (half forgotten by city audiences) in a Western titled Ghost Guns...
...lonely furrow" straight across Orr's carefully cultivated world food field. And a Daily Mirror artist savagely crucified an agonized male figure labeled "World Hunger" on two skyscrapers marked "Wall Street," captioned his cartoon: "I thirst . . . and they filled a sponge with vinegar and put it to His mouth...
...baseball-managing the New York Yankees-was empty. Manhattan sportswriters, who abhor a vacuum, rushed in to fill it. They bandied such names as Leo ("The Lip") Durocher, Frank Frisch and Jimmy Dykes. In one week, three sports pages, each professing to be closest to the horse's mouth, named three different...