Word: mouths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ravenous animal. . . . Now he lifted his head, and Frossia saw a face as flawlessly chiseled as any she had ever imagined, skin and muscle clothing perfect bone work of chin, cheek and forehead. The straight thin nose, the large sherry-colored eyes ... all suggested breeding. Yet the mouth hung loosely, the eyes were twin pools of despair, and now that they were looking at her, something like a sneer crept into them...
...slept Frossia watched him helplessly. "She stood, observing the grimy sunken cheeks, the matted hair, the black-rimmed nails, the bony, bared chest. She got hold of one emaciated hand, brought her ear closer to his face, called his name, but he did not hear her. His blackened mouth continued moving. She bent down and heard a child's broken, muted patter-the young man on Anna's sofa was back in the nursery, afraid of dark corners and curtained windows, and, listening, Frossia was ashamed of her earlier hardness...
...kidnapping had been reported to Guzik's close pal, one Hymie ("Loud Mouth") Levin. Thirty-six hours later, with Hymie keeping his loud mouth tightly closed, Guzik announced through an intermediary that he was safe & sound. Said he: "It was just a holdup, followed by a business transaction...
...control thought and conduct"; actually the correct translation was "to guide the thoughts and control the actions of students abroad." As for the training a student had to receive before going abroad-that was simply to teach him "how to eat soup, not to put his knife in his mouth, or to put salt in his coffee...
...last, after getting blitzed on vodka, and giving the lonely air warden a dog which soon displaces Miss Lamarr in the warden's affections, Professor Powell gets his love life back into focus. Mr. Craig and the dog make a handsome couple. Miss Lamarr has seldom looked more mouth-watering or seemed more tired of it all. William Powell, busy as a beaver, cheats a few glimmers of fun out of all the suggestive mockery...