Word: mouths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...electrocutions had begun at noon in the jail's new death chamber atop the south wing. There, in a small room on an old, wooden chair behind a glass partition separating them from official witnesses, six of the spies, their heads in rubber masks with nose-and-mouth slits, had sat to die. Four executioners pulled the switches; in an hour and 20 minutes it was all over...
...from Moscow. When Ghormley became a maker of battles, even his old classmates found that they really knew little of their friend. They could describe his thin grey hair, his stern mouth, his droop-lidded eyes. They could discourse on his geniality when he relaxed over a drink, on the calm, unexcited way of his command of a battleship, of his respect for the opinions of his staff officers before his own decisions were made. But few of them had ever got to the inside of the man. When they tried, by thinking back over his friendship, they decided that...
...idly dawdled toe marks in the deep dust. Monsoon skies were slate-grey overhead. The oppressive heat gave added pungency to the smell of human filth in the Girgaun district of Bombay's slums. Shopkeepers moved listlessly; talk dribbled in the bazaars. Suddenly everything changed. Word sputtered from mouth to mouth that the British Raj had jailed Mahatma Gandhi...
...Frankic Newton, whose bands were recently in Boston. They play old Dixieland tunes like "Fidgety Feet" and "Oh Baby," and blow the roof off in the process. But you don't mind the plaster falling all around you. Not when Davison plays cornet out of the side of his mouth, with's wonderful husky flavor like Berigan or Spanier. Not when PeeWee chortles his notes sometimes with an amazingly dirty tone and sometimes with a tone like molten silver. Not when Gene Schracder bangs out a fine barrel-house piano...
...first issue of the monthly went as far as Australia, but this mouth's paper may go to Europe to the men in Ireland. Printed by the University Press, the "'Home Front' News" is composed of the efforts of everyone in the Benefit Association and all members are urged to pass along any news they may have...