Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shadows of Fear is a testimonial to a short, awkward, massive, bearded, sharp-nosed shadow, that of Émile Zola from whose novel, Thérèse Raquin, the story is accurately taken. How a girl connives with her lover to push her invalid husband into the Seine and how her subsequent life advances with recriminations, nightmares, protests, to a suicide in the dead man's room in the firelight is told on the screen with the beautiful realism that was the movement of Zola's mind. Splendidly acted by a Franco-German company hitherto unknown...
Parson Faunce's hobbies are: Chinese students, of whom Brown's campus has a plethora; football, of which he knows nothing, but loyally supports; freshman teas, where gangling first year men stand awkward, watching Mrs. W. H. P. F. pour Chinese tea with deft, graceful hands; money-raising, of which he is past master, successful with everybody but Brown Graduate John Davison Rockefeller Jr., who has given Brown but one small building and but half of that. Tycoon Rockefeller would not give the money except with the proviso that the edifice bear his name. So Rockefeller Hall, undergraduate meeting place...
...finale of Act I was a hopeless bungle, due to an awkward set that forced the ecclesiastical procession into the body of the church, an amateur chorus, a green Scarpia (Lawrence Tibbett), the lack of an organ and the sluggish conducting of Merola. . . . Any unforeseen gap she [Jeritza] would fill with her bloodcurdling shrieks or her hollow whispers; she raved, raced and ranted all over the scene, she trembled like a palsied aspen leaf; betimes she played the accomplished acrobat, and, of course, she sang most of the 'Viss d'Arte' lying face downward, as if praying...
Over the fields a stranger approached. She shaded her eyes with a hand and saw that he wore a black frock coat. His walk was diffident as well as awkward. She waited for him to come close. And her eyes widened as the ill forecast of his roundabout phrases became intelligible. Her brother, the great, the famed, the honorable, the revered Dr. Hideyo Noguchi was dead. She put her hands to her face and cried. Her spade fell over into the clods...
Newspapermen, awkward and embarrassed, informed Mme. Bokanowski, who was playing golf just outside Paris at the time of the accident...