Word: mouthfuls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Patton Mouth. Kay survived the torpedoing of the troopship Strathallen to arrive in North Africa a few weeks after the Allied landing. She saw the bitter days of Kasserine Pass. She gave Ike concern because of the "grins, whistles, wolf-calls" which followed her "in this exclusively male territory...
...turned down the famous Patton 75, a suicidal highball of champagne, brandy and possibly other disastrous mixtures. Lunch consisted of G.I. food and shop talk ... I simply had to ask him about the slapping incident., General Patton sadly remarked, 'I always get in trouble with my gawddamned mouth.' At the same time, he shouted at the top of his squeaky voice, 'But if this sort of thing ever comes up, I'll do it again...
Romance traveled a rocky road; but love, with a brief, side-of-the-mouth laugh at locksmiths, conquered all. Francis Hitchcock, 39, balding younger brother of the late Long Island-polo-playing Tommy Hitchcock, and Stephany Saja, 23, blonde daughter of a Windber, Pa. coal miner, were taking a well-earned vacation-a honeymoon in Rio. It had been a nerve-racking week. In the course of just a few days, Stephany flew down to Daytona Beach, Fla. from New York, Francis got his divorce from his second wife, the happy couple eloped for a two-minute civil ceremony...
Guinea Pigs. One of McIndoe's first patients was a flyer named Paul Hart. Flames had burned away his nose; his cheeks were raw; his eyelids, eyebrows and chin were gone; his mouth was crushed to an ugly, gaping gash. Some 25 operations and 3½ years later, Paul had recovered his face. Today, he and his young wife are running one of the most prosperous bulb farms in England...
Three years after Herself Surprised appeared in England, Cary published a sequel, The Horse's Mouth. The story of Gulley and Sara in their old age, it is a wonderfully comic and roisterous novel, tougher and more brilliant than Herself Surprised. Taken together, the two novels form one of the most impressive pieces of English writing in the past decade...