Word: mouthings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Corner-of-the-mouth sociology, good acting, and modern art (primitives that will make art lovers of the calendar lithograph class gasp) give "Scarlet Street" a sophisticated ugliness that is appealing, if only because of its brass...
...libbing Little Flower. Hewing to a prepared script, he skittered carefully, successfully through a dull speech on crime, written by an assistant. If his staffmen can hold him rigidly to a script in future broadcasts, they may be able to keep Boss Ed's foot out of his mouth...
...many-tongued press, which is the world's mouthpiece, does not always talk with the mild forthrightness of the New York Times,. Sometimes it talks doubletalk, sometimes out of the side of its mouth, sometimes it mumbles through a gag of censorship or of its own stupidity. Some of the strangled sounds emitted here & there last week...
...girl trying desperately to be pretty. To hide her too-prominent teeth, she pressed her upper lip well down as she sang. Kinsella kept coming to hear her and tried to coach her back into the uninhibited comedy of her childhood. When she insisted on singing with a small mouth he dropped a plate in the middle of her act. Kinsella became so fascinated with the case of Cass that he gave up the insurance business, became Cass's manager, married...
Then Sergeant Baldassare put a cigar in his mouth, pushed his overseas cap back off his sunburned forehead and walked out with the air of a man who has just paid an old debt...