Word: mouthes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wake Cowling up!" and start shooting at a metal ball in the ceiling light fixture. It always scared the daylights out of Sales Manager W. C. Cowling, who had the office above. Bennett, a sharpshooter himself, once blasted a bad-smelling cigar out of the mouth of a visitor who ignored his request...
...down under the table with her back to Tom, and slowly, carefully, examined each page. "It's got a crooked wheel," Tom said, "that's what it is." The little girl made no answer. She was staring at the book with round eyes and a small pursed mouth-the expression of a nervous child at the zoo when the lions are just going to roar. Slowly and carefully she turned the next page. As it opened, her eyes became larger, her mouth more tightly pursed, as if she expected some creature to jump...
Sculptor Cousino tried vainly to explain: "It's my conception of the Virgin, her mouth open in a stifled cry of the world's sufferings. I started off with the usual base, then despite myself, in the grip of a driving force, my hammer hit on my chisel. It was out of control. I was forced to obey orders which were not of my own inspiration. I can't say it's really mine...
...everywhere, radio and TV competition, West Coast howls for a third league, and, most serious, Congress' investigation of baseball's reserve clause (which prevents a player from selling his services to the highest bidder). Unlike his predecessor, Frick is too cagey to put his foot in his mouth by way of opening it. Baseball's problems can be ironed out, he feels, but "I don't want to go saying things now that will sound silly later. I am not a reformer. You have to make changes slowly and be sure to have a firm foundation...
This time Marquand worries the theme too doggedly, all but writes his book twice. For Sidney Skelton, the novel's narrator, is a highly successful newsbroadcaster who also has the taste of ashes in his mouth, and so rates a pretty full Marquand treatment himself. Sid hates his broadcasting job with its phony buildup. A working newspaperman, he has made good too fast on nothing but a pleasant voice. He can't get used to his big new house in Connecticut or to his wife's yearning to make the social grade...