Word: mouths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...onetime newsman, friendly as an Airedale pup, Furniture Merchant Monroney arrived in Congress four years ago from Oklahoma City. To grow up as a good Congressman he listened, kept his mouth shut, studied hard, said nothing until he had something to say. What he said then usually made sense. This week earnest Mike Monroney stood up in Congress, brushed back his mop of hair, peered at his colleagues, and let them have...
...first to die was Kelly's pal, William Wenzel. Then the cook, with $163 in his pockets, stepped casually over the bulwarks, remarking: "I'm just going across the street to get some pineapples." Another shipmate, dying, begged: "Just leave my mouth open when I'm gone so that I can get plenty of water...
...Brooklynese, teaches composition and piano for a living, bicycles to Coney Island for exercise. When he gets interested, he gets interested. When he got interested in balladry eleven years ago, he pored over thousands of songs in the Library of Congress, picked up many a ditty by word of mouth. He now knows 800. He trained his Ballad Singers-six professionals-to sing them straight; no nourishes. Says Elie Siegmeister, "I feel art with a capital A is a menace...
Hopeful new development in orthodontics, from the patients' point of view, is a radical treatment of some forms of malocclusion worked out at Yale Medical School by Dr. Bert George Anderson. By building up a complicated engineering structure of small bands, spurs and wire in the mouth, Dr. Anderson brings both teeth and jaws into alignment. His rig makes talking and eating a little difficult, but he leaves it in place for only a short time. From two days' to two weeks' application, he claims, brings teeth into line as perfectly as uncomfortable months of the older...
...burlap-starved farmers have got by somehow with emergency allocations, used-bag collections, etc. With mounting cries from bag-starved Lend-Leasers and Good Neighbors, best hope is that such makeshifts-together with stepped-up production of Latin American substitutes-will continue to keep the hand and the mouth connected...