Word: mouth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since radio became the No. 1 U. S. political hustings, politics has been no place or a marble mouth. Last week Radio Guide, most alert of the radio fan magazines, looked seven of the favorites in 1940's Presidential race straight in the teeth, volunteered its opinion of the seven as radiorators...
...shirts. It's summer! Vag eaunters across the Yard admiring the seasonal phenomenon, the gregness, the aims,--even Sever Hall. He walks slowly. There's no rush, no appointments, no assignments, not for three and a half months. He lights a cigarette, lets the smoke curl out of his mouth and hang in mid air motionless. No sir, no one could get him to walk fast now! He'd walk as slowly as he darned well wanted to. He'd even take the long way back to the house, just to show...
...year-old Lou Nova of Alameda, Calif., an inexperienced second-rater. By the eighth round, Has-been Baer was staggering, half-blind, and choking from the blood he had been swallowing ever since the third round, when an inch-long gash was opened on the inside of his mouth. Young Nova, unable to wind up the gory performance any other way, kept pecking at Baer's bleeding mouth and eye, kept pummeling his hideously swollen cheek, kept pounding wildly at his wheezing body...
After these symptoms had developed, Dr. Patton gave each of the sick dogs a small injection of pure vitamin B1 "The effect," he reported, "was . . . spectacular. [The injection] transformed a racing, howling maniac, or one in appalling convulsions, frothing at the mouth and screeching piteously, into a quiet though nervous animal within four hours, and in 48 hours into a normal, healthy, playful puppy...
Friedrich Ekkehard is the author of Storm-Breed, whose down-at-the-mouth hero is revived by hearing Hitler speak "beautiful words, splendid words." Gottfried Rothacker's Frontier Village told of the pre-Munich yearnings of a Sudeten German to be reunited with the Reich. The book sold 60,000 copies...