Word: mouths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London, at the end of the 9 o'clock news, Britain's most popular radio program, Chief Announcer Stuart Hibberd opened his mouth to announce something from BBC's unco-respectable studio. Just then a faulty light signal flashed-Off The Air! Listeners all over the United Kingdom thereupon heard, in cultured tones: What the hell?" (Observed the badly shaken BBC: "Involuntary...
...shut your mouth up and get out. You're so self-opinionated and so self-important...
Today, a still hostile community of nations continues to dwell in nervous tension. Confused reports from press and radio have tended to reduce the meeting of the Security Council to little more than a conflict of personalities. Gromyko frowns and all men stiffen in apprehension. His mouth twitches in the semblance of a smile, and we breathe a sigh of relief. The nation, torn by the violent pulsations of hope and despondency, shows signs of drastic deviations from its former idealism...
Here again Olivier helped out Shakespeare. Shakespeare gave to a cynical soldier the great speech: But if the cause be not good, etc. Olivier puts it in the mouth of a slow-minded country boy (Brian Nissen). The boy's complete lack of cynicism, his youth, his eyes bright with sleepless danger, the peasant patience of his delivery, and his Devon repetition of the tolled word die as doy, lift this wonderful expression of common humanity caught in human war level with the greatness of the King...
...hills to live with Massot, the shepherd. "Madame Massot received me with clasped hands. . . . She was an agreeable country lady, very ugly; with so much goodness in her blind eye, so much goodness in her moustache, in her snuff-taking nose, in her sagging cheeks, in her black-lipped mouth, that she was frightfully ugly. It was an ugliness made of all that sacrifice, of all that martyrdom which constitutes real goodness...