Word: mouthes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Passed on to a friend one of his own maxims: "Don't miss too many opportunities to keep your mouth shut...
...After checking 1,990 cases of cancer of the mouth, throat and lung, three National Cancer Institute researchers concluded that regular cigarette smokers are four times as likely to get lung cancer as nonsmokers and also more likely to get cancer of the larynx. Yet, they insisted, this is no scientific proof that smoking causes the cancer: if it did, increases in both types of cancer should parallel the increase in smoking, but cancer of the lung has increased with smoking while cancer of the larynx has not increased to the same degree...
...playing the roles he discusses, and throws himself about the lecture platform entertaining, as much as instructing, his class. Admitting that he is a frustrated actor, he nevertheless claims that he gave up professional aims soon after he left Princeton. "I don't like living from hand to mouth, which is what an actor must do," he explains. "Not that I want too much security, but an actor lives in too precarious a state. The only ones who make a real living are those who go to Hollywood, and you can't get into the movies unless you're young...
...young man in mill-dotted Lawrence (pop. 80,536), Mass., Peter Akulonis had trouble with the police. He was a poor boy. He was deaf in one ear, and a facial paralysis had twisted his mouth. He rebelled against the world by feats of petty crime-once he hung by his fingertips from a third-story roof for ten minutes trying to escape the cops. But back in the 1930s he reformed, got married, grew silent and almost martyr-like in his resolve to lead the humble, uncomplaining life. Peter Akulonis never smiled, but he was good-year after year...
Richmond Bachelder '50 was rushed to Stillman Infirmary early this morning after emergency treatment at the Cambridge City Hospital. In addition to contusions of the head, mouth, and neck and a cerebral concussion, Bachelder had a knife would running from above his right eye through his ear and into the back of his neck...