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Word: mouthing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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About the only place in Washington last week where there was no loud talk of Prohibition was at the White House. There President Hoover, puzzled by fresh eruptions on a question the importance of which he believes is exaggerated, kept his mouth closed, his ears open. There was plenty for him to hear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Thunder on the Right | 1/13/1930 | See Source »

...last week, when the second Hague Conference met, the new "Big Three" were seen to be CURTIUS, TARDIEU and SNOWDEN, with the courageous, crippled and allegedly crapulous* little Yorkshireman totally missing from headlines because, having bitten off $9,520,000 worth of "spongecake." he has sensibly shut his mouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: New Big Three | 1/13/1930 | See Source »

...House) by the young Republican Party. Shirt-sleeved, he balances precariously on his perch, regarding the troupe, black libertines, thugs, abolitionists, Mormons. One particularly vicious lady looks up into his face saying: "Oh, what a beautiful man he is. I feel a passional attraction." Out of "Abe's" mouth floats a balloon: "Now my friends, I'm almost in and the millenium is about to begin so ask what you want and it shall be granted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Old Abr'm | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

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