Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tourists of the U. S. country fairs are Belle, Snuffles, Betsy, Percy and Biddy-all models from the Department. Belle is a cow who waggles her mouth, spurts milk. Snuffles is a sow, Betsy and Percy her bloated shoats. Biddy is a hen who has traveled to England (TIME, Aug. 11, 1930). Biddy and Belle phonographically declare what they like to eat. Snuffles pleads for clean pastures. The shoats squeal...
...Inspiration, he asked Karen Morley, hired as an extra, to read Greta Garbo's lines. She did it well enough to get a screen test, a part in Inspiration, a long-term contract. Now approximately 22, Cinemactress Mor ley is 5 ft. 4 in., 104 lb., hazel-eyed. Her mouth is too big, her nose too sharp, but she has a gay face and clever notions about how to act. Cinemactress Morley's description of herself: "I'm naturally a lazy person. ... I certainly never fooled myself into believing that I was any raving beauty. ... I don't like...
...Paddy Mack, Boston wrestler: a bout with one Mustapha Pasha; when a spectator tossed a lighted cigaret into Mustapha Pasha's open mouth, causing him to squeal, choke, lie flat on his back; in Hollywood...
Next to Editrix Eleanor Patterson of the Washington Herald sat Colyumist Arthur Brisbane pecking away, eyes down cast, mouth drooping, at a noiseless type writer. Dedicated with the rest of the Hearst organization to the Presidential candidacy of Democrat John Nance Garner, he had little of interest to say about the Convention, but he, too, considered Reporter Rogers good copy. "It's a mistake about Will Rogers being so rich," wrote he. "John D. Rockefeller Jr., recently in Chicago, is much richer than Mr. Rogers, who if you asked him 'Where is your next million coming from,' would have...
...College; of old age; in Philadelphia. Twice captured and exchanged during the Civil War, he was an Army surgeon during the Spanish War, was largely responsible for paratyphoid inoculation of U. S. troops in the World War. Surgeon Keen assisted in the secret removal of a sarcoma from the mouth of Stephen Grover Cleveland in 1893. Fearing the precarious financial situation would be aggravated by news of his cancer, President Cleveland had the operation performed aboard Elias C. Benedict's yacht Oneida. While the yacht steamed slowly up Manhattan's East River into Long Island Sound, most...