Word: mouthes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boone, 22, was just another hillbilly singer from Nashville 18 months ago. Today, nobody who hears him in person ever hears the first or last few robust notes-they are always drowned in squeals of bobby-sox delight. Boone simply opened his mouth and sang when he was ten. "People just got to asking me to sing, and I sang," he says. Pat studied dramatics and speech at North Texas State College, finally landed a few TV spots, then got the call from Dot records. Such tunes as Two Hearts, Ain't That a Shame and, most recently...
Famed British Novelist Joyce (The Horse's Mouth) Cory, 67, failed to understand why the newspapers were so maudlin about his impending doom. Now in a wheelchair as a victim of an incurable paralytic disease, Author Cary was astonishingly sanguine over his fate: "I'm not being sentimental about it. I'm still alive and I can still work, and I might be dead anyway ... I don't think I'm going to die tomorrow. Perhaps in five or seven years, the doctors...
Author Campbell puts the story in the mouth of an unnamed, fictionalized I-Wallah, but even the chairbound reader will recognize that every accent has the authentic tone of a man who has seen combat and can still think about it. The commonplace names−John or Bobby or Tommy or Donald−come completely alive, showing men at their best. Dug in among the wild rhododendron bushes, outgunned, outnumbered and outmortared, the West Kents put on a memorable show: at the end it is clear that men can be pitiable even in their finest hour...
...closer look shows her to be lively and natural in expression. Again, she seems at first to carry far too heavy a burden on her thin, soaring neck, but the strain induced by the weight of the crown is resolved in peace by the upward lift of the quiet mouth, wide eyes and winged brow...
Stopgap. In Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, Mrs. Edna Reed got a divorce after testifying that her husband concluded a family argument by plugging her mouth with a raw herring...