Word: mouthings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kind of care occasionally has other ramifications. A husband happened to drop in with his wife, who had a blister on her heel. While examining the blister, Miss Ryerson glanced at the husband and, in a way that nurses have, reached for a thermometer and stuck it in his mouth. The upshot of it was that the innocent husband, like any TIMEman, went home with a pocket full of cold pills and instructions...
During 50 years of farming at Hiawatha, Kans., John M. Davis accumulated a half million dollars and a long white beard. He also developed a turned-down nose, a turned-down mouth and a suspicious and belligerent eye. John M. Davis had a problem and he wrestled with it morning, noon & night. The effort gave him a mean look...
...Britain's provinces, wiry little Harmonica Player Larry Adler was a bust. The British apparently didn't think there was enough musical nourishment in a mouth organ to make a full meal. With two London concerts coming up, Larry Adler, whose mouthings are a big draw in the U.S., arranged a special press concert to persuade reviewers that he is something more than a campfire musician...
London audiences last week thought so too. But the Daily Mail's Critic Ralph Hill thought he saw a fundamental catch in it. Wrote he: "Where does this display lead to? Nowhere, as I see it. To substitute a mouth organ supported by a piano for an oboe and strings or for the delicate orchestral palette of Debussy may pass as a stunt, but musically it is a fantastic distortion of values. In short, the proper place for Mr. Adler's skillful and artistic manipulation of a mouth organ is the music hall .and not the hall...
...seller lists for more than a year, was sold to 20th Century-Fox and grossed Au thor Frank Yerby something like $250,000). The hero of The Vixens is lean and hard; he moves with controlled grace, and he says everything softly. The girl is slim and golden, her mouth is a splash (some times a slash) of scarlet, and her perfume is faint, elusive. These two daydreams, so happily cast on any Hollywood lot or in any adolescent's bedroom, are naturally not to be frustrated by a lot of gunplay and dastardy in post-Civil...