Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Roosevelt announced his recognition of the Soviet Union in the dead of a Russian night. The great news spread chiefly by word of mouth. Correspondents, unable to get Josef Stalin or any other Soviet bigwig to say anything, scurried around Moscow buttonholing Russians at random on the streets, reported that most of them beamingly commented "Ochen horosho!" ("Very fine!"). In the big Moscow hotels, the National and the Metropole, tourists who were dancing to the Russian idea of U. S. jazz when the news came in cried "Whoopee!", ordered more vodka and Soviet champagne...
Doctor Monica (adapted by Laura Walker from the Polish of Marja M. Szczepkowska; Robert Martin, producer). The oval, heavy-eyed face of Alia Nazimova is now lined and pouched with old hysterias. Her mouth pulls naturally down at the corners. Her pictures make her look either like the bedraggled murderess at the scene of the crime or like Mary, Queen of Scots. Yet the baroque stumblings, wrist-wavings, jaw-droppings, head-wagglings with which Miss Nazimova documents Doctor Monica seriously involved Manhattan audiences in a play that should have been a dull and outdated feminist tract...
...nightmare metaphors but they may find them-accompanied by Cocteau's voice, in interpolations for emphasis or elucidation, and by George Auric's sombre score-a shade less unintelligible than they sound. Typical shots: A cow with a hide made of maps; blood flowing from the mouth of a small boy; a black man with small gauze wings; wire masks; stars, muzzles of guns, the Virgin Mary, a sofa-back through which emerges a man's head...
Other new rules this season, less simple of enforcement, are designed to prevent players on offense from roughing the goalie. One provides that no player may cross a dotted line 57 in. from the goal mouth unless he is carrying the puck. Another defines, by dots in the ice, a defensive area which no attacking player may enter ahead of the puck-carrier. In stead of making both the chief referee and his associate follow the play over the whole rink, the ice is now divided between them. The chief will wear white, his assistant blue...
Steel's NRA code provides that with certain minor exceptions no orders may be booked for delivery beyond the calendar quarter and that cancellations carry a penalty. Thus users of steel have reduced their ordering to a hand-to-mouth basis. Steel's backlog used to be an index of confidence in the business future. The new figures on shipments will have the weakness of almost all indices-the past tense...