Word: mouthfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DOOLEY REMEMBERS - THE INFORMAL MEMOIRS OF FINLEY PETER DUNNE, edited by Philip Dunne. An affectionate portrait oJ Martin Dooley, the imaginary Irish bar tender in Chicago, and his creator, Newspaperman Finley Dunne, who put in Dooley's mouth some of America's best political humor...
...used before Christmas. A family of five, whose apartment abutted the Wall, skidded down a rope dangling from a bedroom window. The same night, a trio of dusty girls popped into the basement of a West Berlin apartment after a harrowing scramble through a 450-ft. tunnel whose mouth lay in an East Berlin coal-yard. But border guards soon found the tunnel and blasted it shut...
Researchers in the labs of Monsanto Chemical Co. have learned to turn out a mouth-watering layer cake, but it is better to look at than to eat. Baked right into it are a quartz rod and a telescope. These two ingredients make it possible for a Kodak movie camera posted outside the glass oven door to take pictures of just what goes on inside a baking cake. Monsanto, a producer of leavening agents tor cake-mix companies, designed the study to discover the best leavening combination for each mix. Its experiment is just one of the hundreds of ways...
...image-counter and an incorrigible drawer of conclusions about the man's life from the man's works. Because Shakespeare refers to bowling 19 times in his plays, Rowse is sure that the bard must have loved bowling. Because Shakespeare puts in Sir John Falstaffs mouth the famous speech slighting honor ("Who hath it? He that died of a Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No . . . I'll have none of it then!"), Rowse writes: "I think we may conclude that Shakespeare, sensible man, would not have been eager to risk his life for honor...
Folklore assumes that in the mind of the American Indian the Great White Father meant the President of the U.S. Not necessarily so, says John Terrell. During the 1820s and 1830s, at any rate, the Great White Father was a stumpy man with beaked nose, pursed mouth and billowing chins named John Jacob Astor...