Word: mouths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dozen times before I can be tolerably pleased with it." He worked out most of the wording on solitary walks along the windswept shores near his home town of Kirkcaldy, Scotland, then often dictated the results to an amanuensis. He finally published the work in March 1776, under the mouth-filling title An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, and thereby laid the intellectual foundations of capitalism...
...Outside the Café Royal (1898), demure Miss Van Snoop captures a notorious murderer and then weeps for 30 minutes. Observes the author: "She had earned the luxury of hysterics." Not so Jerry Wheeler, an ex-stripper who, in Angel Face (1937), is all hobnails, barbed wire and mean mouth. About one criminal, she says in her characteristic tone: "[He] had a face like one of those cobblestones they dug up off Eighth Avenue when they removed the trolley tracks." You've come a long way, baby...
...apparently after the 40¢ that the child had in his pocket. In New York City this spring, police charged a gang of six teen-agers?one of whom was 13?with murdering three elderly and penniless men by asphyxiation. One man died with his prayer shawl stuffed into his mouth...
...Rockefeller Center and is fed live over telephone lines to subscribing stations for 50 minutes of every hour. The other ten minutes are set aside for local news, but stations can devote up to 36 minutes to local programming if they choose to. When the service first opened its mouth at 6:06.30 a.m. last Wednesday, some 80 stations had signed up-from Tuscola's WITT to NBC'S own FM station in New York City, newly renamed WNWS-for a monthly fee of from $750 to $15,000, depending on the size of the local market...
...self-approbation. "Holier than thou" drips from every syllable he speaks. He is thus terribly gullible when a trumped-up letter purports to disclose that the lady Olivia, whom he serves as a kind of steward, is desperately in love with him. Bedford purses his lips as if his mouth were pickled in brine. He walks with the gravity of a frozen penguin. His mien alternates between a mask of hauteur and a tickled-pink grin of uncontainable self-adulation. As an actor, he takes the treacherous gamble of playing directly to the audience and makes...