Word: mouthings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...firing of Henry Wallace touched a sensitive nerve in almost every American. And when that happens, an American almost always opens his mouth and says something. Some memorable quotes...
...delegation. Wang is solemn, homely, rather likable. He is direct, clipped in speech, and generally uses an interpreter though he understands English well. His wife is a Polish Communist, who is said to have strong influence over him. Liao also speaks excellent English, out of the corner of his mouth. The emergence of Wang and Liao, like the emergence of Li Lisan (TIME, Sept. 9) suggests that changes are occurring in the Yenan hierarchy...
...netted sockeyes by the thousands in the Strait. Captain Nels Floe in his 71-ft. Bligh Island reported a record catch of 15,225 fish in one haul; in one day 160 other seiners took 600,000 - worth about $1 apiece. As the sockeyes reached the river's mouth, an armada of 3,500 gillnet boats was waiting. Some novice fishermen were war veterans out for a quick stake. In other boats, the whole family lent a hand; enthusiastic moppets helped parents pay out cork floats and nets over creaking wooden rollers...
Come, come, this can't be. Maybe the spokesman blurted: "Thinking about it, brother, freezes our guts." Then popped his hand over his mouth and added: "Wait, wait-this is for the Air Forces. Change it to. . . ." And so forth...
...clearer idea than all this of why such things happen, but only under the most patient analysis. Actually, the plot's crazily mystifying, nightmare blur is an asset, and only one of many. By far the strongest is Bogart, who can get into a minor twitch of the mouth the force of a slug from an automatic. Another is Producer-Director Howard Hawks's fellow feeling for the Chandler world: even on the chaste screen Hawks manages to get down a good deal of the glamorous tawdriness of big-city low life, discreetly laced with hints of dope...