Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...toward the interesting but not incomprehensible maneuvers of stockmarket operators. On the other hand, it conveys the clear impression of a character who, if not much like the late Hetty Green, resembles somewhat the world's conception of her. Actress May Robson noticed how Hetty Green's mouth curved down in a hard line under a snub nose, how her eyes sparkled merrily under tufted, threatening eyebrows. An expert in makeup, she made her own features do likewise when she had obtained permission for Author Howard McKent Barnes to write Mother's Millions and make its derivations...
...Chicago last week a Mrs. Mary Loretta Watson, 48, made a mistake about her pet bulldog which she had had for five years. She deprived him of a bone. Whereupon he dashed at her, gripped her leg. She tripped. Her calf tore loose in the dog's mouth. She screamed. He tore at her again and again, even after she fainted from loss of blood. A policeman's bullet ended the dog's attack. His mistress died...
These words were hardly out of Sheriff Blair's mouth before three carloads of his men were ambushed from behind piles of railroad ties along the road out of Evarts. Under a rain of lead two deputy sheriffs dropped dead, two others fell severely wounded. A commissary clerk was also killed. Though the deputies sprayed the ambush with their automatic rifles, they got only one of the 100 attackers. Sheriff Blair was alarmed. No longer confident that he could handle "this thing'' alone, he telephoned to Governor Flem Sampson at Frankfort for aid. Not until a petition...
...scene of the disaster, began directing men in asbestos suits to clear away the derrick wreckage, kept white hot by the billowing flames. After the preliminary work, during which Brother Myron broke his leg, a sloping track of steel pipe was pushed to the well's mouth. Hobbling around on crutches. Brother Myron helped Brother Floyd load an insulated barrel with 70 quarts of nitroglycerine. As is the custom, both of the Kinleys spurned asbestos clothing, went about their work drenched by hoses in the hands of their assistants. When all was ready, the barrel rolled down its track...
...first or popular manner, in which the spectator's attention is directed to the beauty of his profile and his legs, the second manner (Moby Dick, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) involves the creation of sinister atmosphere by means of makeup, pale rolling eyes, false whiskers, mouth pieces used for the distortion of the teeth, and stilts in his shoes to make him look taller. He is Svengali, the musical hypnotist of the Latin quarter, in a story that is Du Maurier's Trilby except that the character of Trilby (Marian Marsh) is played down and Svengali played...