Word: awkwardly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British lion, awkward of late, last fortnight clumped his way into a minor diplomatic mess. Until recently the British Government forbade the playing of the Russian anthem, the Internationale...
This apparent attempt to build Miss Temple into another "America's Sweetheart" looks like waste of a tidy talent for emotional acting. Shirley Temple is by no means awkward, as her age implies. She now has a pleasing voice and smile, nicely self-contained manner, and a better acting technique than many of her adult Hollywood confreres. In Kathleen she seems obviously embarrassed at the inanities she is asked to perform...
...Notably awkward finesse: Motoring Grable home from a Manhattan nightclub after a hard day's grilling at police head quarters, Sport Mature, asked what he intends to do after seeing her home, says he's going swimming. Always goes swimming about that time of the morning at a luxurious indoor pool. Grable, of course, joins him, so that the palpitating pair, without the excuse of California sun or Caribbean climate, can exhibit their torsos to the audience before picking up the plot they left behind...
...young. And while he was up there he had looked on all the kingdoms, with the kind of eyes that can stare straight into the sun." He had chosen a kingdom in the west where he saw a "new way of measuring our jerky hopes and graceful rogueries and awkward sorrows." There he had everything except leisure and someone he could love...
...Ferry really becomes routine and, as some pilots think, foreshadows peacetime round-trip flights at $150 a passenger, one of the men to thank will be the son of a British Army Colonel, Bowhill of Bowhill from the Scottish Border, who transferred his love from square-riggers to the awkward skyships...