Word: mouth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most unfortunate effect of the demand for musical interpolations is to be found in "The Great Gabbo" in which Erich von Stroheim is starred. Here was a striking and original dramatic idea about an arrogant ventriloquist who could only be human when talking through the mouth of his dummy and finally became so jealous of the little figure that he broke it and felt himself a murderer. Since the story belonged legitimately enough backstage there had to be a series of chorus numbers, with the result that the drama was entirely submerged. Most screen plots, of course, are not worth...
...Chicago one Benjamin Friedman was shot in the mouth while pursuing a gunman who had held him up. He spat out three teeth, chased on, wondered where the bullet had gone. At a hospital he learned he had swallowed...
...Society points with pride to: the William H. Vanderbilt "Good Hands Cup" donated at New York horseshows to the horseman, horsewoman, who is most considerate of the mount's mouth; newly perfected distemper vaccine; an electric stunning device for food-animal slaughter; revival of the magazine Our Animal Friends (previously called the Kindness News...
...Bedbug" is an intimate name for a small incredibly vicious insect of the hemipterous family Cimicidae. He is oval, fat, wingless and rich brown. He has piercing suctorial mouth-parts. The bedbug of Europe and U. S. is cimex lectularius; his more obese cousin, cimex rotundatus, infests the Orient. It is at night that he marauds, hiding in crevices in daytime. He confines his activities to man, whose blood he sucks, upon whose body he makes his permanent home. Among the bedbug's relations is the singing cicada, who lives on plants and, sucking, makes merry music. Unrelated...
Chicago schoolchildren are now able to look a gift cow in the mouth, or any other portion. Last week Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, famed Illinois Congresswoman, took a pure-bred cow from her farm and presented it to the Chicago Zoo. Said Director Alfred E. Parker: "It's for the kids who have never seen one. Thousands . . . have seen a rhinoceros and a giraffe, but have never seen...