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Word: contort (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood name which may one day take its own place in cinema's sun. That, at 59, Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb becomes a minor cinema star is not entirely due to the fact that the Cobb countenance closely resembles a bull frog's or that he can comically contort his vast physiognomy. Author Cobb possesses, in addition, the same cinematic quality which assisted his great & good friend Will Rogers to stardom: the inability to be anything but himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 2, 1935 | 9/2/1935 | See Source »

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