Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...etchings of George Cruikshank, Dickens' illustrator. A standing joke of Mr. Roosevelt's to ward off press queries: "I've been discussing Mr. Woodin's Cruikshanks." Prominent in his delicate, heartshaped countenance are Mr. Woodin's twinkling blue eyes and his small mouth, a cupid's but firm. He plumes himself on his punning. Last week he declared: "I'm going to be more concerned with Federal Reserve notes than with musical notes for a while." When a newsman named Acuff introduced himself, Mr. Woodin quipped: ''Acuff? Well...
Secretary Ickes is a short, paunchy man with thin grey hair and a mouth that twists up into strange shapes. Behind his gruff manner lies dry humor. He likes to call himself a "lone wolf" in politics. Few regular politicians of either party can guess which way Lone Wolf Ickes will jump next. Anna Wilmarth Thompson Ickes, his wife, whose inheritance is sufficient to leave them both free for politics, is now serving her third term as a regular Republican in the Illinois Legislature. The Insull debacle has been the latest and largest Ickes target...
...scholarship is vacated. It may be Elsa's chance. When she fails to get it she enlists the sympathy and warm admiration of Harry Conway. They fall in love, although they try to control it. "It's surprising," says Elsa, with a wry twist of the mouth, "the things we can control...
...part. There is the old grandmother who gives her daughter her last fifty which she has been saving for her own funeral, and then there is Neil Cornish, the bashful town bachelor, who is always wishing he hadn't said something before the words are all out of his mouth...
...John Barrymore's performance makes Topaze one of the most ingratiating comedies of the past year, as it is certainly the most cynical. Good shot: the Barrymore eyebrow's working above a handkerchief which conceals his mouth when Topaze has just downed his first cocktail, including the olive, in one gulp...