Word: mouths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Word of mouth created such a demand for Attorney Gubin's report that he had it printed and sold in booklet form. In it he had written: "Traditional American methods of aggressive salesmanship and advertising in established media reaching European markets may spell the difference between success and failure in your ECA operations...
...nine months without ulcers; 40% for 2½ years; 17% got no better. His work, Dr. Ivy says, is still "research in progress," not yet a proved cure. He still does not know just what there is in enterogastrone that makes it work. He is now giving it by mouth (14 to 28 pills a day) as well as by injection (six shots a week...
Later, in Boston's Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Plastic Surgeon Edgar M. Holmes loosened her tongue (held fast by scar tissue), closed the hole in the roof of her mouth, replaced the bones in the nose by a graft from the hip bone. In a recent issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Holmes reported on the outcome of the case...
Aside from such obvious improvements as atomproof skins and double gullets for double martinis, there was a secretary with a Coca-Cola bottle permanently attached to her mouth, and type on the ends of her fingers (no typewriter needed). Raymond Loewy Associates drafted a more efficient streetcar rider. He had a head with a hook for straphanging, and a spiked nose to hold newspapers. Another idea: an efficient carpenter with a ripsaw nose, who merely plugged his head in to the nearest light socket, so he couldn't forget his tools...
Miss Greer wears an extensive and luscious assortment of jigsawed gowns, and uses her eyes, mouth and bosom so effectively that it soon becomes clear that she was born too late. Back in the disreputable old days of silent movies, when sex was sex, she would have become a major star very fast. Today, she seems as anachronistic as a Virginia royalist. But it is a pleasure to watch her work...