Word: mouths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Washington No. 2, At 54, President Benes is a small, nervous, mouselike man, with cool eyes, hair thinning and greying at the sides, a mouth that seldom smiles. Czechoslovakia's No. 2 Washington was born on May 28, 1884, at Koslany. near Pilsen, in Bohemia, where his father scraped a living as a peasant truck farmer. As the youngest, most gifted of the family of ten, Eduard was sent to high school, then the University of Prague. There he became a national figure, not in politics, but as the flashy forward for the "Slavia" soccer team...
...bombing Canton are: 1) destruction of the city's military defenses and crushing the southern terminus of the Hankow-Canton railway, China's main pipeline for supplies now pouring in through Britain's Crown Colony of Hong Kong. 90 miles south of Canton at the mouth of the Pearl River; 2) the demoralization of the civilian population. By the end of last week the first had not been achieved-Chinese anti-aircraft batteries still blazed away at the bombers, stores of munitions were still intact, and the vital railway was still open. But the second objective...
Last week a woman named Marie Petitjean Becker, a 58-year-old widow with crisp bangs, a broad mouth and glutinous eyes, sat in a Liége courtroom testifying that she had always been virtuous, romantic, if anything, too tender. Speaking in a husky, flat tone, she gave no indication of the nervousness she had ample reason to feel...
...mountain folk of Kentucky, Tennessee and the Carolinas still follow customs and use much of the lingo of their early colonial ancestors. Though many of them are illiterate, they have handed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation, ballads and hymns that can be traced to Elizabethan England. Still popular among them are such hoary items as Sir Patrick Spens, Barbara Allen, Robin Hood and Little John...
...cinema censors, plump and pretty Peggy Palmer, relict of the late Red-baiting U. S. Attorney General Alexander Mitchell Palmer, last January got the Soviet-made Baltic Deputy banned. Ever since then, said she, Communists (especially "a dark, unshaven man with a short, horrible cigar in his mouth") have tracked her, muttered threats, once threw acid at her, tried to get into her hotel room. Cracked Liberal Lawyer Louis F. McCabe, who is carrying the cinema ban to the State Supreme Court: "A woman as charming as Mrs. Palmer might be annoyed by mashers at any time. Possibly she mistook...