Word: mouthings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Intruder. In Kemalpasa, Turkey, surgeons removed from Arsan Tekkanat's stomach a foot-long snake that had slipped in as he slept with his mouth open...
...motorcycle policeman roared up. Fox put the end of the pistol into his mouth and fumbled at the trigger. But he succeeded only in knocking out his false teeth. As he grabbed for them, the policeman grabbed for the pistol. Fox was disarmed and arrested...
...even beer could be bought in the convention cafeteria. Young Liberals did without balloons at their dance because Mr. King disapproved. Out at the Experimental Farm, there was a garden party at which the old (73) Mr. King played host, shook a thousand hands and stuffed cakes into his mouth five times for the photographers...
...friends and romantic passions distracted Brooke. He was almost at his best in his letters. From a Munich boardinghouse he described a "monstrous, tired-faced, screeching, pouchy creature, of infinite age and horror, who screams opposite me at dinner and talks with great crags of food projecting from her mouth." Musing on Niagara Falls, Poet Brooke wrote: "The river, with its multitudinous waves and its single current, likens itself to a life . . . And as incessant, as inevitable and as unavailing as the spray that hangs over the falls, is the white cloud of human crying...
...Campbell was a young Negro from Washington, D.C., a onetime Pullman porter and redcap, whom the depression had sidetracked from architecture into schoolteaching. In 1942, when war industries were begging for skilled workers, the Chicago school board looked around for a man who could perk up down-in-the-mouth Dunbar. The principal at Wendell Phillips High School, where Campbell was dean of boys, gave him a resounding recommendation: "An artist in human relations...