Word: mouths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smiling self-consciously, like a boy in his first long pants. Another showed him questioning beaten Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus in a bare room near Stalingrad. On Moscow's Kuznetsky Most, an enterprising art gallery exhibited his portrait in oil-blue eyes, bulbous nose, big, friendly mouth, heavy jowls...
...cultivated people. ". . . Never have I underestimated the importance of my rich friends," admits Grace, "because, they have given me the opportunity . . . to sit in the assembly lines of jeweled women who hold down the golden horseshoes of the concert halls of the world. . . . Economic determination is one thing, the mouth of a gift horse another...
...Alten Fjord. Finally, in September last year, came the night when three X-boats (known to the Royal Navy as "Tiddlers") cruised off into the North Sea, After a voyage of nearly 1,000 miles they reached the mouth of Norway's Alten Fjord...
Field's blockbuster is a skit sharply satirizing U.S.-British relations, in which Field plays a cocky, cap-askew, cigar-in-mouth, hands-in-pocket, U.S. lieutenant. His stooge, who portrays a full colonel, urges him to try to understand the English better and show more cooperation. The house comes down when the C.O. suggests to Field: "You might even give the British an occasional salute." Aghast, Field mutters: "Ah, no, Colonel, not that...
...Brinco was conceived by one of the thousands of amateur song writers who drive Rio's taxis, run its elevators, sweep its streets and constitute a sizable portion of its population. Pedro Caetano happens to be a shoe-store clerk. Swarthy Pedro, with slant eyes and a cavernous mouth, cannot read music. He claims that he cannot even play the Brazilian song writer's traditional instrument: an empty matchbox with which the rhythms are tapped on cafe tables. But he has been inventing carnival songs ever since he came to Rio from the farm ten years...