Word: mouthfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with having written the excellent book, lyrics and music, Noel Coward, the costar, sings, dances and otherwise performs. This is unfortunate. The adage "supreme in one, indifferent in all," very nearly applies. Mr. Coward is a clever satirist and was quite evidently born with a silver tune in his mouth, but he is still caught in The Vortex and overdoes his stuff as a consequence. His frenzied, nail-gnawing and agonized eye-rolling largely detract from the effectiveness of "Dance, Little Lady," while his indifferent voice and dancing similarly blur a number of other scenes...
This last-named is a convert from musical comedy, and does himself proud on the now seldom silent screen. Joe is known principally for his mouth, the largest in captivity. It extends from ear to ear and part way back again...
Boston. Parrying the Hoover charge of '"Socialism!" (see p. 7) was the main concern of Nominee Smith's speech last week at Boston. The technique was characteristically Smithian, taking a text out of his opponent's mouth and working for a reductio ad absurdum. The Boston text was Mr. Hoover's: "We shall use words to convey our meaning, not to hide...
...clear the Occidental air of "yellow peril" the distinguished Chinese philosopher, Hu Shih, denies, startlingly, conclusively, that the Western machine-age man controlled, is "materialistic" while the Oriental hand-to-mouth, disease-ridden existence is "spiritual," and therefore potentially superior...
Said Artist Stuart on being asked why he rarely signed his work: "I mark them all over!" Said he of the famed Washington portrait: "When I painted him he had just had a set of false teeth inserted, which accounts for the constrained expression so noticeable about the mouth and lower part of the face...