Word: mouthes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bryan's summation: "Since man is a social creature, he must expect risks in social contact, even in petting parties. The only alternative is to become a hermit or a bore. Kissing can be not only a pleasant but a harmless pastime if ordinary lip and mouth hygiene is practiced." But Dr. Bryan still refuses a flat answer to the original question. If the partner happens to be in the early stages of a serious infection (such as strep throat), a kiss can still be dangerous. It involves a calculated risk...
...automatic, unconscious and frequently impulsive act . . . an expression of tenseness, usually found in fidgety, high-strung, overactive children . . . The origin of nail-biting is probably in the instinct of the child to put every object in the mouth...
They set up housekeeping in a single room in Forest Hills, just a 20-minute subway ride from Manhattan. It was a hand-to-mouth existence. Mrs. Bloom was ill and, because of British monetary regulations, could get little financial help from England. Claire spent her time singing "terribly sad songs," copying out poems from memory (one of her favorites: Poe's ". . . All that we see or seem, Is but a dream within a dream . . ."), or curled up reading her red-leather volume of Shakespeare. She also went to school, but did badly in such practical subjects as arithmetic...
...Head Charlie's mouth, Cannon put this comment on manners: "You're licked before you start. You're dead soon as you tip your hat to a dame. You tip your hat. What does that mean? It means the broad is something and you're nothing. It starts off with a guy admitting he's a piece of dirt. Why can't a dame tip her hat back?" Cannon keeps his pockets stuffed with notes for his "Nobody Asked Me, But . . ." columns. Samples: "Nothing improves an actress' diction more than marrying money...
...sleeve, she had become that rarest of things in U.S. literature: a best-selling poet. To most young moderns of the '20s and '30s, poetry meant simply Edna St. Vincent Millay. To jazz agers and Bohemians she became a symbol for living recklessly, hand-to-mouth and bed-to-bed. Critics who then spoke of her in the same breath with Shakespeare might like to take back a lot of what they said. But even the relentless weeding-out by time has left a handful of lyrics and sonnets that still have both zest and grace...