Word: mouth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...businessmen of the Argentine was Secretary of State Hull. They begged and pleaded with him, since he was actually in Buenos Aires, to negotiate there with Argentine Foreign Minister Carlos Saavedra Lamas and try to clear up the many vexatious Argentine-U. S. quarrels over tariffs, hoof & mouth quarantine, and exchange restrictions which now so hamstring the two countries' mutual trade...
...supplying, as material for the experiment, young people capable of putting on entertainments that will attract paying guests-are a series of acts which show what has become of old-fashioned vaudeville. Samples: Gracie Allen. George Burns and Ben Blue dancing the minuet; Martha Raye stretching her monstrous mouth; Jack Benny in a burlesque version of Love in Bloom; Marsha Hunt and Leif Erikson singing to each other...
...Huntington, W. Va., Bricklayer A. D. ("Joker") White set out to beat the record of Cleveland's Dr. Thomas H. B. Staggers who had balanced 4,200 matches on the mouth of a beer bottle. "Joker" White successfully stacked up a record 5,400, announced modestly: "I just built 'em up like I'd put up a brick wall...
...Huxford & Cashman have started right out to get geographic comparisons. They find, for example, that Iowa and Nebraska are richer in sunburning sunlight than the Chicago region, that the uplands of South Dakota are richer still. They indicate their willingness to put their heads in a lion's mouth of uproarious dispute by comparing the healthfulness of Florida's sunshine with California...
Once the audience has overcome its inclination to wince whenever Comedian Whitehead opens his mouth, O Say Can You Sing? has some genuinely entertaining moments. Most professional episode is a ballet called "Renaissance," ably danced by talented and personable Grace & Kurt Graff. A little chocolate drop named Baby Marie Brown steals the first act finale, Grandma's Goin' to Town, by singing and dancing disguised as a midget mammy. The ingenue role is performed by Grace Herbert, a good-looking local night club entertainer, who delivers some of Composer Phil Charig's imperative tunes, among the best...