Word: maw
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...worker in a steel factory, Chaplin has to screw nuts on plates in an assembly line. He is dexterous but uneasy. A fly lights on his nose. He brushes it off. The belt gets ahead of him. He follows it into the maw of a gigantic machine which has to be reversed to return him to the line. At lunch time, the president of the factory uses him to test a new eating machine which throws soup in his face, jams a corncob against his teeth, pounds his face with a blotter. After this hideous experience, Chaplin goes wild. First...
...pleasure to notice with what diabolical perspicacity the writers of book blurbs select the author's most striking language for the public to sample. Here is the work of a critic who can select from the mass of sham which gluts the maw of the reading public the few tiny gems of true art. Listen...
...Dallas, Tex., police picked up a shaggy-haired young man they found on the street late at night, dressed only in long cotton underdrawers. At headquarters he explained: "I'm Heckter. I hail from up yonder by Weldon, Ark. One night maw was reading to me out of a book and she come across a sign that said somethin' about how you can learn to be a great singer from a teacher in Dallas. Maw made me a pretty new shirt, give me some money and showed me the road to git on comin' this...
...Natural History, to help & advise, mediate & make peace. So tactful was the peacemaker that when the smoke had cleared it was observed that the dismembered monster-the neck from Washington, the tail from Pittsburgh, the head and body from Utah-had all traveled to Manhattan and into the maw of the American Museum...
...great tides was flashing round them, and the enfabled rock on which they swarmed swung eastward in the marches of the sun into eternity, and was masted like a ship with its terrific towers, and was flung with a lion's port between its tides into the very maw of the infinite, all-taking ocean...