Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was a young man out of Higginsville, Mo. some 30 years ago who was willing to try anything once or maybe twice. He had a thin-lipped, reckless mouth, downslanting 'possum eyes, the name of Bert Hall and the makings of a hero. After a few years on Mississippi steamboats, he became a dare-devil automobile racer, drifted to France. There with Aviation Pioneers Henri and Maurice Farman and Louis Blériot he learned to fly. In the Balkan War of 1913 he received $100 a day as pilot first for the Turks, then the Bulgarians...
...gone to jail for putting two good cops in the hospital, his mistress Aggie, with a celerity only possible in the cinema, meets bis opposite, a precious, rich, bespectacled country boy (Charles Farrell). By throwing away his spectacles, telling him to talk out of the corner of his mouth, giving him the Irish name of her jailed lover, she turns the country poltroon into a man-eater and a construction gang boss, then falls in love with him. The complications arrive late, when the lover gets out of jail and Farrell's coddling aunt and charming fiancee (Betty Furness...
...Berlin but when he was invited to visit the U. S. again he was as uncompromising as before about his programs. He would come but he would play only Beethoven. He would not play encores for the sake of sending any audience away with a marshmallow taste in its mouth. On no account did he want a long tour which might let him get stale. He preferred to play with orchestras, although orchestra fees are always lower than those for individual recitals...
...dress and a soiled apron, a woman two thousand miles from a dark girl at Pamilco, a woman all infinity from Celestine" at New Orleans. "You could no more compare Celestine to her than you could a glass of absinthe to a good field." Her large red mouth was slightly open. He said, "It's me." She said, "Aiyes...
Mellifluous sentiment oozes from the mouth of Lionel Barrymore. It is a pleasant shock. Only once in his performance as the unselfish country doctor does he resort to his hair-pulling act. "One Man's Journey" depicts the life of a generous rural physician who struggles and struggles to amass enough money for research work. When he has the opportunity to go to the medical center in New York, he is detained because little Letty McGinnis swallows iodine. At the end we see him still struggling in the country. "One Man's Journey" is not an epic...