Word: mouthings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...elations, fatigues. There were exhausted Italian ref ugees, U.S. wounded, panoramic views of battlefields, pen & ink portraits of Generals Eisenhower and Clark, Correspondent Ernie Pyle. There were also nine sketches of dead bodies. One of the most effective, War Drawing No. u, showed a death-sprawled German infantryman, his mouth covered with a muffler, his unflung hand grenade lying near his outflung hand...
...worried public relations officer broke in, to put more tactful words in the hero's mouth. Bong accepted the amendment, but everyone could see that he was not particularly interested in public relations. His private opinion had been expressed...
WITH MY HEART IN MY MOUTH-Duncan Norton-Taylor-Coward-McCann...
Three In One. With My Heart in My Mouth is the unpretentious story of a visit Duncan Norton-Taylor paid (for TIME) to the Pacific war last summer. He felt about as warlike as most Americans. In Honolulu, he made a heartbreaking tour over the death-stinking decks of ships being raised from Pearl Harbor; and when he lunched with a group of nurses, "the least composed person at the table was I." He lost his Abercrombie & Fitch trench coat, the true war correspondent's caparison, in New Caledonia. He took a kind of tourist's gander...
...main fact which makes this book so homely-good is that its author's heart is in the right place: whenever it is not in his mouth, it's back in Montclair, N.J., with his wife Peg and his daughters Joan, Susan and Nancy. As a refrain, all through the account of fighters and fighting appear touching snatches from Peg's and the girls' letters-the perennials Peg won at a bridge game, Susan and her clarinet, Nancy's i sth-birthday trip to New York, the Girl Scout hike, the bicycle trek to Newark...