Word: mouths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marx Brothers and Laurel and Hardy have been successful at the same type of comedy for years, a slapstick variety with humor arising from situation and double-meanings rather than from plot intricacies. That is the type of humor in "The Braggart Warrior." Briefly, a soldier with a bigger mouth than a sword has one woman and would woo another. He keeps the first against her will, while her real lover waits next door. He is tricked into releasing her, and receives a beating and almost a fate worse than death--from his standpoint--for his pains in chasing...
...austere four ounces of sweets a week, began to speak expertly of such popular British candies as "hundreds & thousands," "bull's-eyes," "gobstoppers," "English humbugs." Six-year-old Jane Merrill gave some definitions: "'Gobstoppers' are soft and big and when there's one in your mouth it's so full you don't do anything but sputter. 'Hundreds & thousands' are called that because there are so many of them and they are measured out in a cup. They come in colors and I like pink...
...plugging, finally recorded Riders and some of his others at his own expense. Then Nature Boy Eden Ahbez (TIME, May 3, 1948) sandaled into the act. He heard Riders and liked it. The song had hair on its chest, and would be hard to croon with mush in the mouth. Ahbez took the music to Burl Ives, who quickly recorded it for Columbia. By the time Bing Crosby got it onto wax for Decca last month, and Vaughn Monroe had done a big, first-class production job for Victor, Riders was roweling hard for the top of the hit parade...
...four straight until a teammate, just before the attempt, yelled "Automatic Hyde." It is to be hoped that said teammate will tape up his mouth before the next Dartmouth game. Dartmouth has defeated Harvard by a margin of a single extra point twice since...
...Stillman is an institution devoted to the elimination of sleep. The daily routine starts at 6:30 a.m., when the sick student, comfortably clad in a pair of T-shaped cloth objects distinguishable only by a drawstring through the top of one, finds the pleasant mouth of the nurse pressed close to his ear. She is quietly calling his name. Outside to the east, the sky is still graying, but this does not bother the efficient nurse. She likes to Get Things Done. She takes to paticut's temperature with a wet mouth thermometer. He goes back to sleep...