Word: mouths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...warn people in nearby buildings. The bomb went off. What was left of Hayes and Watts was buried under the collapsed stone building. Middleton's body was blown through a barbed wire barrier and across the Street of the Prophets. His police whistle was still in his mouth...
...remainder of the article I find very informative and as a whole quite correct. . . . I find the high spot in the statement telling how President Smith shares his working hours with the pastime of "slyly popping bonbons into his mouth." It may also be mentioned that he can always be noticed stroking his goatee with his left hand...
Yaaah! In San Jose, Calif., a woman left her dentist with her completely toothless mouth painted a bright purple, spotted a gentleman friend outside and playfully gave him a great big purple yawn, felt rather foolish when he turned out to be a total stranger...
...Horse Marines, Elda (then 17) fought her way out of the family, once & for all, and headed for Manhattan and the stage. She brought with her from Hollidaysburg two permanent assets: her talons, and an inviolable core of Quaker staidness. "Hedda," says a friend, "is a Quaker from the mouth down...
Readers who know the name of James Boswell only by hearsay are likely to consider him an intellectual lackey who simply recorded every scrap of conversation that fell from the nonstop mouth of Samuel Johnson. But he was much more; as Louis Kronenberger points out in his introduction to this handy Portable, Boswell was both a kind of genius and "a tissue of contrarieties." The man who rushed off to a brothel on hearing of his mother's death "was both cocksure and uncertain of himself; painfully self-searching yet comically self-deluded; a Tory in his beliefs...