Word: gobs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gob of road tar is a morsel which children like to chew. Tar contains dirt, of course, and poisons with terrific names like creosote, benzene, cyclohexane, anthracene, dianthracene, toluene, pyridine, amylene, methyl cyanide, carbon bisulphide. Tar-chewing children should be warned by the disaster which overtook a man tarring an Ohio road. As a case of industrial toxicology, the American Medical Association considered it important enough to publish in its Journal...
...Making of Americans, Geography and Plays, A Birthday Book, As a Wife Has a Cow, Tender Buttons. Her letter head carries a figure like a fleur de Us and underneath "It's a rose, it's a rose, it's a rose." A large rose gob is her seal. She is a sister of Leo Stein, famed art critic, with whom she is not on speaking terms...
...lily in hand, while the band played a dirge and newsmen who had boasted about having dress clothes with them paraded in cutaways and silk toppers. Then, neck and hands in stocks, he was led before the judges (his parents) and made to kiss the Royal Baby (a thuglike gob clutching a gallon bottle of milk and an electrified wand). A royal bootlegger administered a stoup of vinegar & pepper from a whiskey bottle. Then Son Allan was lathered with lampblack, shaved with a wooden razor, dumped into a tank of water and beaten down a gauntlet with cotton clubs...
...this piece, in which she is the mercenary mink who works as a professional partner in a dancehall. Like the heroine in that play called Night Hostess, she maintains a nominal chastity?"she walks home alone"?but teases sailors out of gifts and dance tickets. Of one breezy gob she becomes enamoured and over her he starts a free-for-all fight. No peace-lover, his past record is against him when he is arrested. Unless he comes out of this scrape, he will be court-martialed...
...court the virginal teaser appears as a voluntary witness, convinces the magistrate that she was the cause of the fight and tells the crowded courtroom (which includes her mother) that she is a lady of joy. The magistrate discharges the prisoner-gob, saying, "Instead of protecting you from these young men, we should protect them from you." This is not one of the best pieces, but it is one of Clara Bow's best. One Jack Oakie, as a sailor named "Searchlight," ought to get somewhere as a character actor with the flattest face on the two-dimensional medium. James...