Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nature: In appearance, Mr. Howells was chubbily Lloyd Georgian; carefully barbered, however, smooth-browed and with an honest mouth. In the autobiographical works, Mr. Firkins finds that he was athletic only in boyhood, a nonsmoker, fearful of dogs yet fond of them, as fond of birds as Spencer and Stevenson, partial to public spectacles, keen of nose, "respectful" toward dress; that "he observed the habit while he deplored the custom" of giving tips; that his visits to churches "commonly involved the Baedeker rather than the Prayerbook. . . . He distrusted Eddyism [Christian Science] . . . recoiled from what seemed to him tasteless and tawdry...
Betty Lee. A moderately dull musical comedy forced into furious and agreeable activity by desperate dancing-that is Betty Lee. A song or two that will serve and Hal Skelly and Joe E. Brown (he has a wide mouth) trying hard to squeeze comedy out of commonplaces-these help occasionally. Most of the singing is discouraging and the costumes something less than smart. There is a plot about a youth who boasted he could run and then was matched against a champion. The huge trousers sers of Mr. Brown are easily the most important feature of the entertainment tainment...
...portraits. That is, when I find those who know that a portrait is a painting. Sometimes it is hard to make them understand. They think there must be the kind of a mouth they have, or that the eyes must be exactly of such and such an expression. Then the whole family must get together and be glad about it. I don't paint that kind of a portrait...
...University there. They have made insulin into pills; not such pills as are wont to be taken by candlelight with a sob, a gulp of water and a lump of sugar. No, for insulin dissolves in the juices of the stomach and becomes virtueless. These pills melt in the mouth like very sugar, but, unlike sugar, they melt into the body direct, are absorbed through the pores of the tongue. The effect is reported to equal that of injections. Thus may the diabetes-stricken fight their malady, at some future time, with lozenges...
...gentleman folding wiry arms over a double-breasted blue waistcoat. There too was Anna Pavlowa by Malvina Hoffman; almost too slinky, too shiny-eyed a lady for that decorous dusk; Schattenstein's picture of Miss Cathleen Vanderbilt (Mrs. Harry C. Cushing III), oval face, narrow eyes, pursed sleepy mouth; Halmi's portrait of Miss Constance Mc-Cann, a slim girl with red hair; Alfred Munnings' restrained, academical paintings of Mrs. George F. Baker Jr., Mr. Sidney Fish. There was an early Sargent; an early Augustus John...