Word: mouths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Patriot Wang, though a Cantonese, has a horror of a characteristic Cantonese delicacy, roast snake. Once at an elaborate banquet he complimented his host on a dish he had never tasted before. Told it was "jumping dragon," a deadly Kwangtung snake, he called for water, washed his mouth over a dozen times, left the banquet, went to bed, called Cantonese physicians, was not satisfied until he had gone all the way to Peking and had his stomach examined. The snake Patriot Wang hates most of all is Wang Ching...
...carrier the Germans dropped one 1,100-lb. German air torpedo. Two 550-pounders hit a battleship on the prow and amidships. The carrier was "destroyed" (they did not say "sunk"), the battleship "crippled." On another raid next day they flew to the Isle of May at the mouth of the Firth of Forth. There they struck the bow of a British cruiser (Washington Treaty 10,000-ton type) with a 550-lb. bomb. On both occasions, all Nazis got home safely. All this happened, said the Nazis, so help them Wotan...
...Editor-in-Chief Hans Fritsche of the Nazi broadcasting services frothed at the mouth in German for 13 minutes over the German air replying to Mr. Churchill's claim of a scoreless week for the U-boats. Excerpt...
...editor of Punch (1906-14), officer in World War I, successful playwright and novelist. "When I read the biography of a well-known man," he confesses, "I find that it is the first half of it which holds my attention. I watch with fascinated surprise the baby, finger in mouth, grow into the politician, tongue in cheek; but I find nothing either fascinating or surprising in the discovery that the cynicism of the politician has matured into the pomposity of the Cabinet Minister. It was inevitable...
...Brooklyn saloon, Patrolman William Deichler did his favorite trick. Removing five bullets from his six-shooter, he said: "I'll pull the trigger and stop the bullet before it gets in my mouth." Patrolman Deichler lost count, pulled the trigger six times, fell dead...