Word: slobberly
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...slobber: see your teeth are clean...
Chauffeur Ben knew Sol was behind it when a bank was cracked by "four wild kids, anywhere from eighteen to twenty, scared so bad the slobber is running out of their mouths, couple of them coked to the ears, their suspenders stretched double from the gats they got in their pants." He passed on the dope to the smart miss who was vote-getting for Sol's political opponents. Ben fed her tips all through the elections; got Sol run out of town...
...inmate of one of the largest penitentiaries in the world, San Quentin. A horrible prison, through which one sees a stream of faces; solemn, accusing faces, and vacuous, prying faces that twitch and slobber in thrill-sated ecstasy at sight of one who still professes his patriotism...
Sick animals go lame. They also slobber at the mouth and smack their lips as though trying to get rid of something. The mouth is sore from the characteristic lesions of the disease. When animals are infected they must be killed and their bodies destroyed by fire or quicklime, else buried deeply, to prevent the disease spreading to other animals. Because of such thorough eradication the U. S., which has had several epidemics of foot-&-mouth disease, now has practically no cases. In the Argentine the disease still prevails. That is one good reason for preventing the importation of Argentine...
...finest clown in Rome-none other, as he glumly reflects, than himself. Lon Chaney goes off on a tear in the part of tragic Tito. While it puts some limit upon his metamorphic talent, he is able still to twist his face into many a contorted grin and to slobber frequently with sorrow. Laugh, Clown, Laugh is a trite picture and not a true one, but it succeeds surprisingly often in its lugubrious intentions...