Word: mouths
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This week it was reported that Japanese troops, with the help of fishermen fifth columnists, had landed on Lubang Island right at the mouth of Manila Bay. This suggests that the Japanese might try to invade the Philippines...
Children who stutter seldom outgrow it without proper training. Nor can it be cured by such customs as holding pebbles in the mouth, swinging the arms, or crawling on all fours. Main goal of Dr. Greene's treatment is to calm down stutterers of all ages, make life easy for them...
...hard palate, he has trouble with t, d, n, r, 1; if he has a harelip, he cannot make the sounds p, m, f, v, w. Such people need surgical treatment, or perhaps a mechanical palate. Their main problem is to expel air through the mouth, not the nose. To learn this, they blow soap bubbles and rubber balloons, sometimes hold to their lips an "airflow indicator"-a gadget consisting of a wheel which revolves when air escapes from the mouth, a paper which flutters when air is exhaled from the nose...
...even attacks the bloated reputation of Aristotle, though granting that Aristotle "of course, was frequently right, for it is almost impossible, under the laws of chance, to be wrong all the time. Thanks to him we know that the Weasel does not bring forth its young by the mouth, as held by Anaxagoras. He also denied that Hyenas change their sex every year. He was only guessing, but it sounds like a good guess. I don't know what to say of his theory that flatfooted people are treacherous. Some of them are, very likely...
Larry Adler met Paul Draper in 1933, when mouth-organ dates were scarce. The late Samuel A. ("Roxy") Rothafel had a stage set with three doors, had hired Draper and a girl singer to enter two of them. Adler wangled the job of coming in through the third, competing with Draper for the girl. Adler and Draper became friends, finally got together to try for concert-hall audiences in Chicago last year...