Word: mouths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cabinet post of Minister of Production. For a short while he was widely talked about as a Tory candidate for Prime Minister. But an early ministerial speech was so maladroit that the boomlet promptly collapsed. Said a friend: "He talks like Demosthenes with the pebbles in his mouth...
...Election Year." Last week the pebbles in Minister Lyttelton's mouth were much in evidence. As the context of his words showed and as his explanation made plain, he was trying to pay the U.S. a strong compliment. Because of the U.S. opposition to aggression, he might have worded his praise, the U.S. made plain to Japan long before Pearl Harbor that she must give up her plans of Asiatic domination or fight. The U.S. was aggressive against the aggressors. But Minister Lyttelton's bumbling word "provoke" gave Axis propagandists a field day. Immediately Jap Domei...
Cherry Ripe., Stubby, troubled Shimada, with his Prussian hairdo and his overripe cherry mouth, was not going to feel the warm smile of history. But he had worked hard to win it. No less than six times he had been assigned to the General Staff; the first five were considered successful. Between these tours of duty he had commanded a submarine division, a cruiser, the battleship Hiei, finally (in 1940 and early 1941) the Third Fleet, entrusted with blockade of the China coast toward which Nimitz now aims...
...restless as she listened to a speech in praise of General Charles de Gaulle, was herself suddenly interrupted by Playwright Henri Bernstein, who leaned forward from the platform and said to the violinist's red-haired wife: "Mrs. Kreisler, would you please be kind enough to keep your mouth shut...
...intestinal flu, gyppy tummy, the trots, molly-grables), which almost everyone has had at some time or other. Since the disorder cannot always be traced to food (TIME, June 19), the doctors think it may be a virus infection, possibly transmitted through the nose as well as the mouth...