Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Brave days are still remembered in that house. Along its corridors goes Cosima Wagner, his widow-a grim, gaunt woman with the eyes of a sick eagle and the mouth of a field marshal; up and down she parades, while her petticoat rustles. The whisper of memories, ludicrous, pathetic, stirs to the swish of the old woman's skirt along the empty hall. ... A shaggy little man contorted over the piano, begging his wife to walk up and down the room because he "so loves the rustle of silk. ..." A swollen little man, throned among his friends, shouting...
Last week he opened his mouth. Occasionally reports of his remarks have appeared in Collier's Weekly, but rarely has he given interviews to newspapermen. Four years ago he gave an interview to correspondent Wilbur Forrest. Nowadays Mr. Forrest lives in Paris?as correspondent of The New York Herald-Tribune. But he has been home on vacation. So he traveled to Dearborn, Mich., and elaborated two days' interviews into four articles that appeared last week...
...sick man lowered into it. Aboard the Relief, he was operated on and reported recovering. On the green before the Pago Pago School, Chief Tupelos, barefooted and dressed in a huge brown helmet, batwing collar, four-in-hand tie, brown pongee coat and a cigar in his mouth, led 500 droning singers and nimble dancers for a sava (song and dance contest) for the amusement of the fleet. Despite his 250 Ibs., the chief danced most gracefully. In a brilliant, colorful fatiguing pageant the natives danced themselves half dead the while reciting endlessly the history of Samoa...
HERE COMES THE BRIDE-Irvin S. Cobb-Doran ($2.00). With the air of a man rolling a cigar in his mouth, savoring it, puffing, chewing the butt, spurting forth smooth smoke-curls and rich juices as the philosophical fruits of his rumination, Humorist Cobb drawls on and on about intoxicants, ancestors, being homely, the zoo, national holidays, Christmas presents "and so forth." Very different from "chewing the rag." He is the delight of a vast audience that relishes: an elaborate Southern simile- (false teeth that clattered) "like a fox-trotting horse with a loose shoe crossing a covered bridge...
Colombia. For the third time this year the volcano of Galeras, near Pasto, opened its mouth and spewed rocks, ashes and other red-hot debris over the countryside. Great flames soared heavenwards. News from La Florida and Sonsaca, nearby towns, was interrupted. Fear was expressed that they had been destroyed...