Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Satirist Grosz had opinions last week about the U. S. face (he had seen only Manhattan faces). He analyzed it as typically pale, thin and long, notably Puritan with heavy lines of violence beside the mouth, somehow suggesting the Amerindian...
...leech is a form of worm which lives on blood, can absorb as much as three or four times its body weight. Around its mouth is a sucker surrounded by a network of strong muscles. It makes a triangular incision in its victim, clamps on the sucker, pumps out the blood the while secreting a ferment which prevents the blood from coagulating. In tropical countries leeches attack men and beasts; in Western Asia, Southern Europe, North Africa they are imbibed in drinking water, cause hemorrhages, nosebleed, headache, asphyxia. They are hermaphrodites. In the U. S. they are retailed in some...
...small attention to detail? bold, striking character studies. In her husband's picture which hung above the fireplace she had caught his quizzical domineering expression, the important frown he wears when "things in Washing- ton are going badly." She had not attempted to flatter Actress Katharine Cornell, wide of mouth, heavy of eyelid. There were two nudes because, Mrs. Mc-Cormick explained, "you can't have an exhibition without nudes." Amusing was what the artist called her "American Primitive"?a group, done from an old photo- graph and much resembling a colored tintype, of the late whiskered Joseph Medill...
...collecting of the various handicrafts of New Mexico's varied groups as his initiation into the mosaic racial pattern of Southwestern culture. "Through his sympathy with the things created, he came into touch with the things experienced." These experiencings, reaching him first by native word-of-mouth, he gracefully transcribes in full-flavored variety. A specimen...
With the Captain was a lanky young woman of cultured mien. Her tousled blonde mop, high cheek bones and wide, tight mouth made her look remarkably like Charles Augustus Lindbergh, particularly when her hat was off. Her name was Amelia Earhart. She was working in a Boston settlement house but she had learned in California how to fly. With admonitions to keep her hat off as much as possible Publisher Putnam, whom Amelia Earhart soon learned to call "G. P." or "Gip," bore her off to Mrs. Guest. She got the job. Few months later "G. P." was able...