Word: mouthes
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...body," rather than finding herself utterly alone in her 50s, her sexuality fading, a silhouette in danger of becoming a "character." She didn't want to end up unhappy like her overwhelmed mother: married to a charming, philandering journalist who "didn't even take the cigarette out of his mouth" to bestow a kiss, who forgot the name of the youngest of his nine children, who "dumbly refused the ordinary effort of being a father." So she ended up unhappy in a different way, having to look away when she sees "small children, hopping around...too beautiful to bear...
...elegy on the death of Yeats, W.H. Auden wrote that "poetry makes nothing happen" and added, "It survives,/ A way of happening, a mouth." This sentiment seems a long step down from Shelley's 19th century claim that poets are "the unacknowledged legislators of the world." But both statements add up to the same thing: the practical life of getting and spending needs, however grudgingly, the exhilaration and consolation of poetry, of memorable speech, of words striving to be true to themselves. The 20th century perfected the hard sells of propaganda and advertising, but talented people still worked to keep...
...some knucklehead in his soul too. While a genial fountain of joy, Armstrong was a street boy, and he had a dirty mouth. It was his shooting off a pistol on New Year's Eve that got him thrown into the Colored Waifs' Home, an institution bent on refining ruffians. It was there that young Louis first put his lips to the mouthpiece of a cornet. Like any American boy, no matter his point of social origin, he had his dreams. At night he used to lie in bed, hearing the masterly Freddie Keppard out in the streets blowing that...
...girls stabbed him. With a trout sandwich among his effects, Armstrong took a train to Chicago in 1922, where he joined his mentor Joe Oliver, and the revolution took place in full form. King Oliver and his Creole Jazz Band, featuring the dark young powerhouse with the large mouth, brought out the people and all the musicians, black and white, who wanted to know how it was truly done. The most impressive white musician of his time, Bix Beiderbecke, jumped up and went glassy-eyed the first time he heard Armstrong...
...Even if no deal emerges, the White House will sure miss Ginsburg's bumbling. "Almost everything he's done has left the bar with its mouth agape," says McAllister, "and that made Monica, in terms of the threat she posed to Clinton, look less serious." Well, she's serious...