Word: mouthings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...round, brown eyes. His most characteristic gesture when making a speech: emphasizing a point by rising on his toes, leaning forward, pointing his index finger and popping his eyes. He favors dark, conservative suits, hates to be photographed in his shirtsleeves (he thinks it undignified) or with his mouth open (his front teeth are slightly parted). He speaks in deep, deliberate tones, uses an occasional gentlemanly damn...
...After 75 years of marriage, Mrs. Joseph Forstadt of New York gave her formula for success as a wife: "Just keep your mouth shut...
Bags of peanuts in hand, Bing Crosby and three little Crosbys clumped into the dressing room of the spring-training Pittsburgh Pirates. Said Part-Owner (25%) Crosby to Pitcher Kirby Higbe, as he popped a peanut into his mouth: "How's things, Kirby?" With a shudder, a Pirate locker man grabbed Bing just in time to arrest the flight of a second peanut. Bad luck, explained the locker man-eating peanuts in a dressing room...
...after Music Czar Petrillo lifted his ban on television (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the networks scrambled to be first to televise their big symphonies. CBS won by a nose, with a telecast of the Philadelphia Orchestra. It was an interesting performance: Maestro Eugene Ormandy, unwarily popping a peppermint into his mouth in midpassage; the camera ogling the girl members of the orchestra. But for most televiewers it was just a curtain raiser for Toscanini, half an hour later...
...Maryland during the spring recess, contests against Drexel, Maryland, and Navy. Of these, Drexel, being a small school, will undoubtedly be the easiest. But Maryland and Navy are the two big teams in Southern lacrosse. Last year's Crimson team matched Maryland in everything but passing around the goal mouth, and the Terrapins walked off with a 15-2 decision. The squad's experience at College Point merely pointed up the fact that Maryland has the slickest stick-handlers in college lacrosse...