Word: mouthings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...members replace Clifton Fadiman, Will D. Howe, and Burton E. Livingston. The other two members of the Book Committee are Irita Van Doren, literary editor of the New York Herald Tribune, and Dorothy Canfield Fisher, author and member of the Book of the Mouth Club's Committee on Selection. The members of the Book Committee volunteer their services in guiding the reading selections of the more than 90,000 members of Phi Beta Kappa for whom the "Key Reporter" is published...
...revitalized Allied force along the Tyrrhenian coast first rounded up 2,000 dazed, stranded Germans at the mouth of the Tiber, sent them to the rear. They raced almost 40 miles more, occupied one of Rome's ancient ports, Civitavecchia. Eighty miles north of Rome-25 miles ahead of Allied land patrols-Allied minesweepers poked into the harbor of San Stefano, found that it too had been evacuated...
...hands and legs tied behind his back. They peered into a cavern on Rome's outskirts, where the Nazis had piled like cordwood some 500 Italians massacred last March in reprisal for the grenade-killing of 32 German soldiers; now weeping Romans stood at the tomb's mouth, searching for relatives among the cadavers...
When captured by the Germans, each American is given a kit containing a combination diary and photograph album, notebooks, pocket Testament, athletic equipment, pencils, checkers or chess, a mouth organ, etc. He also gets a German-English dictionary, a book of light reading, and a letter explaining educational courses he can take through the Y. The Y sponsors trade schools for prisoners (instructors are captured Americans), supplies the textbooks...
...Betka, Veronica's voluptuous girl friend, whose "pure teeth savagely crunched stalks of celery that broke in her mouth like icicles of spring." One day she received a one-word telegram from her mother in Poland. It said: "Suka" (Russian for bitch...