Word: mouthings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evening. The scene, a corner table downstairs at "21." TIME Correspondent John Doe nervously approaches Gibbs, who is deeply involved in a plate of pompano and a bottle of Berncasteler Doctor '34. . . . Doe asks Gibbs what he's going to say in his review. Gibbs wipes his mouth with napkin, stares at Doe somewhat frigidly. Doe says, "Will it be something like, Quote I'd say offhand that there are only about three newspaper reviewers here who are competent to write about anything, but it is absolutely absurd to make an issue out of this play, which...
...Wrong. The Gibbs edict, delivered from a pompano-less mouth, first appeared in the New York Sun. Furthermore, TIME'S Doe would have been a researcher, feminine, and not nervous...
From Progreso or Vera Cruz, it is an easy sail across the Gulf to the mouth of the Mississippi, and soon, from Caribbean ports like Puerto Barrios, the banana boats will again be putting out regularly for the voyage north to New Orleans. Many latinos-from Mexico and Yucatán and the other lands around the Caribbean-come mainly to shop in Canal Street department stores (where Spanish-speaking clerks are numerous), play in the French quarter (with its association with 18th-Century Spanish governors), study at Tulane's Department of Tropical Medicine, and take treatment...
...entomologists is that termite queens are egg-laying machines (as many as 4,000 eggs a day). In some species, the queens' abdomens grow gigantic, like fat, helpless grubs nearly four inches long. Around the queen, worker courtiers gather, stroking her tight-stretched body wall, feeding her helpless mouth, carrying off her eggs. The king's only duty is keeping his consort fecundated...
...says he offered to put the tour on a winner-take-all basis, but that Don couldn't see it. (The Budge version: Budge offered to split the profits 70-30 but Bobby preferred 60-40 because he "doesn't want to put his money where his mouth is.")* "It must be tough for Don," says Bobby sympathetically, "trying to get back...