Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tribe. On horseback, Desmond Holdridge, 24, explorer for the Brooklyn Museum, rode for 30 days from the mouth of the Amazon River to Rio Brasco in the jungle country of Brazil, close to the Venezulean border. With him went a native horse thief, the only guide brave enough to accompany him. In the heart of the jungle he found the Pishauko tribe, known to white men by name only. Originally a plains people, the Pishauko fled into the jungle to escape becoming slaves to Spanish conquerors. The natives worship before a symbol which looks like a crucifix, chant services before...
...ponderous rights aimed at his body. Camera could slap down his guard and plank a punch over. He did not seem at first to be trying very hard. In the eighth round the referee warned him for hitting low, but by that time Paulino was bleeding from the mouth and right eye. When the decision was properly given to Camera, the crowd, not knowing much about fighting, but liking Paulino for his nerve and nationality, booed heartily...
...muscular but buxomly beautiful. Her partner, who is no relation but who acts consistently as a big brother to her, is an enormous fellow with a dumbly faithful expression. In the same show is a paunchy middle-aged Romeo who sings romantic love-songs so convincingly that even his mouth becomes heart-shaped as he warbles. The singer is carried away by the artiste's charms, acrobatically displayed, and pays her respectfully romantic court. She is enchanted and they are married. Her partner is a little surprised but apparently not hurt, and they all leave the show because Romeo...
...more than one likeness. She has the same trick of using lassitude as a means of conveying the impression of inner fire that the Great Garbo has adopted. In appearance, there is the Garbo hair and the almost wooden face together with the Brent-like sharp jaw, set mouth and pointed nose; but she is more beautiful, though a less skillful actress, than either...
...Jersey City, N. J., James ("Valley") Smith, 30, was shot several times. One bullet struck his chin, entered his mouth, knocked out a tooth. When surgeons hunted the bullet, he explained: "I spit it out." Wire At Grand Rapids, Mich., Charles Garnett, Mike Eikelbery, and Everett Glazier were arrested for stealing 150 mi. of copper wire which they dismantled while the lines were charged with 144,000 volts. Near Middletown, N. Y. Fred Woods saw a deer drop dead while crossing a field, followed it, dropped dead by its side. Both had touched a broken high tension wire...