Word: mouthes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Appearance: Tall (6 ft. 3 in.), husky (more than 200 Ibs.), hearty, seldom without an expensive cigar in his mouth...
...harmless-looking sort-he had the severe mouth, high forehead and martyred gaze of a divinity student; he was nearsighted, and wore rimless spectacles. No cop bothered him as he wandered toward the Washington Monument in the national capital one evening last week, with a .38 revolver and a roll of adhesive tape in his pocket. Though it was still light, he ducked, unnoticed, into the front seat of a parked sedan...
...should come first, he says, and local treatment should be tried only if thumb-sucking still persists. Nagging the child, he says, painting the thumb with ill-tasting medicines, guards, gloves and closed sleeves are not good. Neither are plates and bars which the child can remove from his mouth...
Died. Hymie ("Loud Mouth") Levin, 53, junk dealer's son who became Al Capone's chief "collector" in Chicago during Prohibition, later teamed up with Jacob ("Greasy Thumb") Guzik in the red-light and gambling rackets; after long illness; in Chicago...
Furthermore, says Fisher in effect, Solomon's wisdom was not even his own; it was just a lot of words put in his mouth by his ghostwriter and his Egyptian wife. The real Solomon, according to Fisher, was a phony liberal with a father complex and a massive sexual overcompensation; his quarrel with the prophet Ahijah* was an exchange of irrelevancies between a dilettante and a fanatic...