Word: mouthfuls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came over to me and said, 'What's the matter with you? You must be joking.' I told her no, it was true. She pulled the cover off and started trying to clean his face and blew air from her mouth into his mouth and said that he was warm and that she knew he was still alive. She was crying, and said she didn't know what had gotten into me. She asked me if we had had a fuss about anything, and I told her no. She said she didn't know what...
...when he wrote Prufrock, is getting young in his old age. Last year the erstwhile "aged eagle" talked about taking dancing lessons, and now he can be seen dining out and piloting his 31-year-old wife Valerie across dance floors. "His brow so grim and his mouth so prim" radiate such dimpled benevolence that one crusty old friend likens the new Eliot to "an enormous, overstuffed Angora...
Lomax aired his theories on England's highbrow Third Programme in one of the most popular series in BBC history (commemorated by Punch in a cartoon of a down-at-the-mouth hillbilly singing: "I've got those Alan-Lomax-ain't-been-around-to-record-me blues"). Now back in the U.S., Lomax would like to "turn the loudspeakers around" and convert Americans from a nation of audiophiles into folk performers. An eminently folksy sound-representing, according to Lomax, the "furthest intrusion of Negro folksong into U.S. pop music: rock 'n' roll...
Underneath Sicily lies forever a Cyclops, crushed beneath the land's great weight, through the -vengeance of the gods. His mouth is beneath Etna, and hurls forth flames of lava...
Tongue Twister. In Anadarko, Okla., a witness in a district court trial was asked by Attorney Chuck Goodwin if he thought the defendant's tongue had been thick at the time of the alleged offense, answered: "I didn't look in his mouth...