Word: mouthfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Walker Smith, Rocco Francis Marchegiano, Arnold Raymond Cream, Joseph Louis Barrow and Carmine Tilelli have in common with Cassius Marcellus Clay? They all were boxing champions who preferred to be known by their aliases* rather than by their proper names. The resemblance ends in the general vicinity of the mouth...
...born with a silver spoon in one's mouth, so goes the adage, is to be born assured of wealth. Rarer still are the spoons on which tots teethed in Olde Englande. So rare, in fact, that in 1531, when table manners were simply a toothy process of disconnecting meat from bones, one Humfrey Cooke willed that "every one of my childrene shal have one silver spone callid the Apostles." For when it came to skimming the crème de la crème, nothing could match a set of spoons decorated with figures of the Twelve Apostles...
...about the end of the marketplace "sits rather oddly beside the experience of the past 20 years, which have seen a wider array of entirely new consumer goods than in any other two decades before." The Daily Telegraph editorialized that Galbraith's propositions were based on "sleight of mouth." Economist Colin Clark was amazed at Galbraith's "grand and illusory dreams of all-powerful industrial corporations untouched by competition," and suggested that he observe a "cautious unwillingness to extend theory beyond its safe limits...
...crime in this picture is described twice. First time around, the criminal (Michael Caine) confidently imagines how it will happen. A cocksure young cockney, Caine likes to picture himself as a consummate cracksman and his accomplice (Shirley MacLaine) as a dumb Dora who knows just enough to keep her mouth shut. The pair arrives in the Middle East, where Caine smoothly contrives to encounter a gullible Moslem millionaire (Herbert Lom). Flabbergasted by the girl's resemblance to his late beloved wife, the millionaire instantly invites both Caine and MacLaine to dine in his private apartments, and after dinner...
Second time around, the crime is shown as it actually happens. Everything goes hilariously wrong. Caine turns out to be a stone-fingered amateur, his accomplice a witty little chit who can't keep her mouth shut, the millionaire himself an alarmingly shrewd article who instantly suspects that Caine & Co. are up to no good. Even so, he invites the crooks to his apartment for the pure pleasure of watching their faces when they see that the bust of the empress is secluded in an impenetrable electronic seraglio...