Word: mouths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...answer his own telephone. (Since his number was similar to a popular theater's, Stockholmers often inadvertently asked their King for two on the aisle.) He affably hands callers lighted matches for their cigarettes; but once when a Swedish politician, now dead, stuck a cigar in his mouth, expecting the King to light it for. him, Gustaf just let the match drop on the floor...
...Saxman Sidney Bechet (TIME, March 31), whose last club engagement in Chicago was at the Deluxe Cafe in 1918, when he came out of New Orleans' Storyville after the whorehouses were shut down during World War I. Old Sidney, who had recently been favoring one side of his mouth because of an infected tooth, sounded all the better for a new store tooth. Playing alongside him was a trombonist named Munn Ware, whom Chicagoans consider the best new horn in the business...
...Emily Post, doyenne of etiquette, spoke of prunes: "The proper removal of pits [from the mouth] always depends upon their being made as dry and as clean as possible with your tongue. It is horrid to see anyone spit skins or pits into a spoon unless they are really bare and the lips compressed...
Bruegel intended his Temptation of Saint Anthony (see cut) as a topical sermon. The rotting fish atop the head in the center of the picture, says Editor Barnouw, represented the Church of Rome, which Bruegel considered viciously corrupt. The half-submerged head itself was the Christian world, its mouth on fire, and in the background floated a menacing turretful of Turks. Hermit Saint Anthony turns his back on the nightmare. Ignoring the crossbowman above him, he takes comfort in the psalm: "In the Lord put I my trust . . . for lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow...
...Fool." Except for his grim mouth, Ryukichi Tanaka, a fat little man with half-closed eyes and a huge head, looked like a bland buddha. He was a lady-killer, soldier, spy, agent provocateur. After 26 years of this motley career, Tanaka became chief of the Military Service Bureau of the War Ministry, a job that gave him indirect control of the Kempei Tai (Japan's secret police), and made him "The Monster" to terrified Japanese...