Word: mouths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louis made for open water so fast that, as one junior officer described it: "We didn't have a bone in our teeth-we were foaming at the mouth." Captain Charles E. Reordan fought his ship, the Tennessee, while wearing civvies and a straw...
Eire dependent on the Sassenach? Isn't that the fine talk to be coming out of the mouth of an Irishman? And did his party delegates rise like one man and cry: "Take off your shoes, Mulcahy, and show us the true webbed feet of a bogtrotter-or bad cess...
...middle of their act, Charlie suddenly reared up, turned to Bergen and said: "Who the hell ever told you you were a good ventriloquist?" Bergen blushed, fidgeted, tried to put his hand over Charlie's mouth. "Don't shush me," Charlie continued. "I'll mow-w-w-w you down. You better go back to the farm and leave me alone. I'll get by, but you're all through, brother, all through." Charlie then turned on the customers and told them they were a disgrace to civilization. Bergen put him on a chair...
...with gay waltzes. At 9:30 p.m. Vice President Wallace, whose doggedly devoted campaigning had brought him both sneers ("the Johnny Appleseed of 1944"), and cheers (louder at Madison Square Garden than those for Truman), became the first to "concede" a Democratic victory. But Harry Truman kept his thin mouth closed. When Tom Dewey conceded defeat at 2:15 a.m. (C.W.T.), Truman hailed it as a "grand statement" that showed "American sportsmanship." Not till 3 a.m. did the cautious, homespun man who will be the 34th Vice President feel confident enough...
They were both anti-Nazis-Herr Hogen a fanatical one who had had to be cautioned by his Catholic pastor to keep his mouth shut. At the time they were hiding the soldiers, Horbach was a frontline town not yet solidly occupied by Allied troops. General Eisenhower's proclamations about turning in German soldiers had just been tacked up. Hogen and Packbier had not had a chance to read them before they were arrested...