Word: mouthes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mississippi settled into its modern bed, it remained and remains a geological curiosity. For, technically, it runs uphill. In a Department of Commerce publication, the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey reported that the headwaters of the Mississippi are 3,956.17 miles from the center of the earth, while its mouth on the Gulf of Mexico is 3,960.22 miles from the center. As the Mississippi flows from Minnesota to the Gulf, it climbs 4.05 miles farther from the earth's center...
...Horse's Mouth. The film version does not quite come straight out of Novelist Joyce Gary's mouth, but Alec Guinness is almost the spitting, boozing, wheezing image of Gary's painter, a magnificently hilarious gutter genius...
When Philip Hanson Hiss, 48, settled down to the real estate business in booming Sarasota, Fla. (pop. 45,000), he quickly established a reputation for being a damyankee with the loudest mouth around. What Hiss found to shout about was the school building program. Says he: "When I got the facts I went wild. Some of the schools were downright unsanitary. The rest rooms were so bad the kids wouldn't even go to the bathroom. And the curriculum was just as bad." In 1953 a friend jokingly challenged him to run for the school board. A self-styled...
...Horse's Mouth. Joyce Cary's hymn to hobohemia, as Alec Guinness bellows it forth in his best whisky tenor, makes the year's best British comedy (TIME...
...state of Morelos is the Kingdom of Judaea, and in which the pre-Columbian pantheon is transfigured to decorate a Christian altarpiece. Coccioli has leaped over the two stumbling blocks-banality and blasphemy-that beset the path of those who would compete with the Evangelists. He speaks through the mouth of one of his characters, a scholar who has studied the case of Manuel: "The Lord who knows the bottom of our Mexican souls knows that I am not blaspheming...