Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very first week I knew you, I wrote myself your vassal," he recorded. It was not for her wit, for he had more; nor for her money, since he planned to win their bread as a surgeon; nor for her beauty--"her nostrils . . . a little painful," he wrote, "her mouth is bad and good, her Profile better than her full face . . . her hands bad-ish, her feet tolerable." He did not even love her for her guile: they had many a tiff over a ball-room brave, and he reproached her with being a minx, "calling people such names...
...there were not many teeth left in his mouth. His lips had been punched wide. There was an old scar, almost as bold as a knife wound, on his left cheekbone. And over his eyes the accumulation of scar tissue, where his brows had been opened and stitched and healed repeatedly, projected like eaves. His belly was still rather flat, but it flapped and fluttered like a loose drumhead and there was a band of slack-meat over the top of his trunks." The piece ended with what none of Pegler's readers could misconstrue as an apology...
...good sense: "Undoubted catfee of the enormous mortality is the hungry duck greedily attempting to feed on the leeches when they are in their buglike [deflated] resting shape. When the worms are disturbed they clamp onto anything within reach-in this instance the inside of the duck's mouth or throat. By distention when filled with blood they then either choke the bird to death ... or work into the nostrils and prolong the agony. The reeds are full of choking birds. "At Stobart Lake we chased lightly afflicted birds in a boat over the bodies of thousands . . . floating upon...
...Sacramento, Calif, police found bedraggled Erwin Anderson, 4, sitting on the roof of the Anderson garage, his bloated tongue protruding from his mouth, clamped with two clothespins. They arrested his foster-mother, who said the clothespins were "a disciplinary measure...
...this comedy is New York City at the turn of the Century," says a program note by Messrs. Grouse & Ford. "If any member of the audience can detect the slightest error in atmosphere or historical data, the authors would be greatly obliged if he would please keep his mouth shut about it." It would be more to the point if Author Grouse (It Seems Like Yesterday, Mr. Currier & Mr. Ives) and Funnyman Ford should defy their audiences to detect the slightest bit of sanity in the antics of their comedian-Joseph Lytell ("Joe") Cook. Mr. Cook is Broadway Joe, beloved...