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Show Everywhere Expresses Contempt. The tongue has a single gesture, and everybody knows what it means.- It is thrust out to express contempt. The little girl who "sticks out her tongue" does not- realize that her action, so unladylike, un-ladylike, harks back to tho prehistoric. prehistor-ic. ' It is undoubtedly a most ancient mode of conveying the Idea of Intensified Inten-sified disrespect. Everywhere in the world, among savage and civilized peoples, peo-ples, the lingual gesture has the same recognized significance. |