Word: mouthes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bowron, whose name incidentally fell out of Mickey's big mouth. Bowron's lawyer pointed out that, although the program was announced as "unrehearsed," the fact that it was shown in Los Angeles three hours later on a kinescope made it a "deliberate and calculated event...
Ever since he first loped onstage last fall opposite such formidable opposition as CBS's Playhouse go and ABC's Wire Service, it was clear that Tennessee Ernie was a new kind of Ford in TV's future. Jaws slack and chipmunk eyes watering, his mouth listing to port in a mustachioed half-smile, Ernie could slam into a fair-weather tune with authority, sink back languidly into some corn pone-and-molasses badinage about his pea-pickin' cousins (he claims 150 kinsfolk) or how to make porcupine meat balls. He could turn a muffed line...
...Herb Score had failed to lean into his usual fluid follow-through. A fat pitch floated up, just knee-high. McDougald lashed it back, a string-straight drive that ended in the sickening sound of a baseball meeting human bone. Pitcher Score crumpled. Blood burst from his nose and mouth...
...love to dainty Southern belles, and dashing Southern gentlemen swearing love to Northern girls, the movie pursues a great epic-theme: the heroic South certainly got a rotten deal after the Civil War. In an attempt to insure that "carpetbagger" will leave a bitter taste in every moviegoer's mouth, the film details the labor pains of the nation's birth...
Speedy Stories. Another large-sized little person (5 ft. 7 in., 160 lbs.), silver-haired Jim Bishop, 49, talks in terse, side-of-the-mouth sentences that often sound as if he read Hemingway before writing, also brings to his craft an Irish eye for sentiment and a memory for "all the important little tiles of fact on every story of consequence." He is a tenacious reporter, with a disarming manner and a glib way of dramatizing. Bishop on Bishop: "I'm a reporter. A pretty good one. A pro. If my work is memorable, it's because...