Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thunder clouds rolling down the valley of the Loire last week made excited Frenchmen hurry to launch from the river's mouth at St. Nazaire the largest ship in the world...
...Words Upon The Window Pane to introduce to the U. S. Scene is in a spiritualist seance where a sleazy medium calls upon her control, "Little Lulu," to bring tidings from the beyond for her customers. Suddenly there is a babble of tongues in the medium's mouth. The spirit of Jonathan Swift, no less, is deranging communication between Ireland and the astral shores. All the customers save a young Cambridge man want the savage Dean's spirit exorcised so that they can get on to more personal business, but Jonathan Swift has the upper hand, begins speaking...
...Brown's little army scattered. But Kansas had given him a bigger, more dangerous idea. He disappeared; sometimes not even his family knew where he was. He visited prominent Abolitionists in the East, begged money for his desperate scheme. About the gist of it he kept a close mouth. His sons feared him, distrusted his mysterious plans, tried to shake free of him; but when the day came most of them were with...
...suavely questioning, blandly dissecting the answers he received. Swindler Wright grew pale as he realized that at last someone could untangle his involved deceptions. A jury found him guilty, a judge sentenced him to seven years imprisonment. Sharp-eyed Counsel Isaacs saw Wright's hand go to his mouth. He sprang forward, but it was too late. Wright lay dead on the floor, his hand clutching an empty phial of cyanide...
Cornerstone of the relief program on which President Hoover is seeking reelection is the $3,800,000,000 Reconstruction Finance Corp. Nominally controlled by non-partisan Democrats, R. F. C. is the pride of most Republican stumpsters. Last week campaign orators were supplied with some mouth-filling figures when R. F. C. reported to the country on its first seven months' operation (to Sept...