Word: mouthes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...emergence of Scrabble has been volcanic and unexplained. The game began to grow into a national institution last year, when shipments shot from 1,436 sets in the first quarter to 37,000 during the last. Devotees quickly carried their word-of-mouth advertising through the U.S., from the first coteries in New York and the North Side of Chicago. Scrabble clubs have convened all over the country, and potential buyers of sets (cost: $3 apiece) solemnly put their names on long waiting lists. Hostesses serve a Scrabble board along with the after-dinner coffee, and shiny markers with...
...Parsons: I cannot remember anything except cleaning his face when blood came out of his mouth...
...Stout, handsome Father O'Brien could step into any casting office and get a role as a Catholic priest. His voice is rich and he uses it effectively, he knows how to make people feel warm and at home, and the right words seem to grow in his mouth and fall ripely from it. He looks far more the evangelist than the scholar. Yet 60-year-old Father O'Brien has done graduate work at the University of Chicago, the Catholic University of America in Washington, B.C., the University of Illinois (Ph.D. in psychology) and Oxford. Since...
...smile, or at least you stretch your mouth and put it up at the corners, and then you [here he makes a little spitting noise that sounds like "thhsp!"] flick a hair off with the end of your tongue, a tiny hair, and that's all there...
Across the river mouth from Hong Kong on the mainland of Red China is the tiny (eleven square miles) Portuguese colony of Macao, whose legitimate industries are the packaging of matches, firecrackers and Sin. Into Macao one day last week came the Portuguese ship Rovuma, with a cargo of iron and steel plates, machine tools and industrial chemicals. That night coolies shifted the Rovuma's freight into motorized junks, which began moving up the Pearl River toward Canton...