Word: awkwardnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Drive a Crooked Road (Columbia). The awkward age for most boys was the golden age for Mickey Rooney. But like most prodigies, one of the most talented child actors of modern times has had to pay for his precocity. At 24, he found himself a has-been-the public would no longer believe that he was a boy and was bored by the suggestion that he was a man. In the last five years, Mickey has made seven pictures, in each of which he seemed less and less the Hardy perennial...
...Foreign Secretary in the House of Lords, if was often Butler's job to defend policy in the Commons. While Churchill cried havoc from the back benches, Butler loyally defended Munich and Mussolini's Italy in his maddeningly tranquil voice, became famed for his equivocal replies to awkward questions. The exasperated and jittery Commons nicknamed him "Stonewall Butler," and Lloyd George called him "the artful dodger...
...Gadein was a stringbean of a Negro tribesman, simple and guileless as a calf, awkward as a young camel and endlessly tolerant of abuse. He wore an iron ring through his nose, and around his waist a belt of lizard skins and tinkling bells. His father Abu Zed, was the potbellied chief of three African villages, and he was thoroughly disgusted with Gadein. Smaller boys outran him and outfought him. The village girls and, indeed, the whole village, laughed at him. "Here comes the lunatic!" the young men would roar. On the night of the great feast, Abu Zed publicly...
...they wanted to sacrifice better seats for conviviality, students in large groups could attend in a bloc. Elimination of the past mistakes and inefficiencies in distribution is definitely worth the investigations and the committees appointed. The above plan, with its considerations of both speed and convenience, answers the awkward ticket question...
...angel in the pantomime ballet, Bronia Sielewicz is regal and lovely; on the other hand, Rod Davis, the protagonist, is slow and awkward in a role that calls for deft, light dancing. Monotonous narration by Jack Rogers also slowed the play's pace...