Word: mouthings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Announced in Manhattan last week was a cure for penicillin's handicaps. Dr. Raymond L. Libby, American Cyanamid Co. biophysicist, reported that he had perfected a method of administering the drug by mouth. Now the way has been paved for treatment at home...
...Linda Darnell, his high-kicking cafe dancer, repeats her role of the designing seductress in "Summer Storm" with surprising skill. There are some very effective touches in the photography: a long view of a Guy Fawkes Day bonfire, and what is unquestionably the film's most absorbing minute, a mouth-watering close-up of the Darnell cheescake...
Bill Edwards, who left Hayti, Mo. (pop. 2,628) to fight in Europe, was on a night patrol in Huertgen Forest when a mine blew his foot off. He lay where he had fallen, keeping his mouth shut so as not to betray his comrades to German infantrymen near by. Artillery shells whistled overhead in a constant barrage. A shell fragment struck his good...
...great immediate threat was from Nimitz, who could pick his way up the steppingstone islands to the mouth of Tokyo Bay. Whether Japan could be invaded before the Jap armies on the mainland of Asia had been engaged was still debatable. But the way to China did not necessarily lie through Luzon and Formosa. The Japs themselves had pointed to the possibility of a northern route through the Ryukyu Islands to the great ports around the mouth of the Yangtze River...
...anti-Wallacemen were deaf. In the hottest terms, Bailey denounced Wallace as the preceptor of wild economics, a "dangerous" man whom it would be "immoral" to confirm. The caucus broke up, with nothing but a bitter taste in everyone's mouth...