Word: mouths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Daughter Emily was thin, graceful, with a wide mouth, an upturned nose and large, haunting eyes - a goblin face. Her sister Lavinia was a village spinster, in her later years became cross, sharp-tongued, quarrelsome and grasping, with long black hair, broken, irregular teeth (mostly false) and dirty hands and fingernails. Their brother Austin married Susan, their school girl friend, a tavernkeeper's daughter. Susan soon became involved in a lifelong feud with sister-in-law Lavinia...
...warm spring night, a lovely night for a stroll. As the Marquis sauntered serenely down the quiet street, two alert carabinieri passed. They sniffed. The rare and mouth-watering fragrance of the Marquis' cigaret was unmistakably American. The carabinieri exchanged an eloquent look, and strode after the Marquis. It is a black-market offense for an Italian in Rome to possess American or British cigarets. Sure enough, the carabinieri found two packs of Chesterfields in the Marquis' pockets. Into the pokey he went, for the night...
...possible to be more wicked at this sort of thing and at the same time more tasteful by means of pantomime than by word-of-mouth; and when an actor is attending to spoken lines, even good ones (and these are only pretty good), his ability to invent expressive pantomime is almost bound to slacken. There are some rough, funny scenes in A Royal Scandal, especially a long, toast-quaffing, glass-smashing seduction scene between the Empress and the most faithful and willing of subjects. But too much of the humor depends, typically, on your capacity for being amused...
...Land Sailor. Shipbuilder Ferguson runs his acres of ways and forests of derricks with the offhand manner of a country storekeeper. He keeps no regular office hours, usually refuses to sign papers, spends his time cruising about the yard. Says he, out of the side of his mouth: "My predecessors damn near wore themselves out signing their names...
Fire Crackers. In Okmulgee, Okla., the Rev. Howard Bush heard a prowler, called the sheriff, lay in wait outside, got cold and hungry, went back into the house. When he came out, he was challenged, could not answer because his mouth was full of crackers, was shot in the stomach by the sheriff...