Word: mouthes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last November Lieut. Charles C. Anderson, 25-a hard-boiled career infantryman with a distinguished combat record-was court-martialed for brutal training methods. (When a man collapsed doing pushups, Anderson had a cross put in his mouth and said: "If he wanted to act like he was dead, I wanted him to look like he was dead.") Anderson was cashiered. Last week an Army Review Board upheld the court-martial, but rejected the sentence. It fined Infantryman Anderson $450, permitted him to stay in uniform. Ruled the board: "The circumstances found in the case of Anderson's action...
...Debate. While the Welshman's stream of words eddied around him, Clem Attlee chewed his pipe, taking it out of his mouth only to mutter: "Most embarrassing, most embarrassing." Attlee left it to his right-wing followers to tear Bevan down, and they did, though messily. "Why did you once take me for a walk down the corridor and say we must get rid of Mr. Attlee?" one woman M.P. demanded of Nye Bevan. "That's a wicked lie," Bevan shot back...
...Jungle) Sinclair, long one of America's loudest social consciences, took an ad in New Republic magazine to thunder a special plea. Sinclair, a lifelong teetotaler, was trying to unearth "a publisher who believes in abstention." In a "terrible but rigidly truthful" book titled Enemy in the Mouth, Abstainer Sinclair had "told the tragic stories of 50 alcoholic writers." Their suicide rate was ten times the U.S. norm, their lives 15 years less than the average span. After mentioning four dead drunkards in his own family (including his father), Upton Sinclair sorrowfully listed a surprising roll of fallen slaves...
...worn, as he always does, well-cut Western clothes. His small bronze face sat satisfiedly behind round black spectacles that looked, in a certain light, as if they had been painted on by Bobby Clark's makeup man. Beneath a hesitant growth of gray mustache^ his round mouth was flattened into a broad grin. "What would you like for breakfast?" someone shouted. "More votes," grinned Ichiro...
...20th Century-Fox's How To Be Very, Very Popular, announced that she would play the role her way, not Marilyn's. Producer-Director-Writer Nunnally Johnson backed her up: "Sheree will not act like Marilyn. She has been instructed to play the entire part with her mouth shut...