Word: demeanors
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Tall, goateed, strong-voiced Charles Hubbard Judd celebrated his 65th birthday this week, will retire as head of University of Chicago's education department in June. To educators, this is roughly equivalent to what the retirement of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes (whom Dr. Judd resembles in physical demeanor) would mean to jurists. Since Psychologist Judd, at 36, went to University of Chicago from Yale, where he was director of the psychological laboratory, he has become perhaps the first U. S. educational statesman...
...western a la mode, with sepia platinum filming as its only outstanding characteristic. The hot wastes of Arizona look well in this medium, as does Virginia Bruce, always more reminiscent of the rotogravure debutante than of the prairie mother. Yet if her striking coiffe and general showgirl demeanor make Miss Bruce an anachronism in any western, Mr. Beery, who has a way of making homicide seem unimportant, is also miscast...
...Plate engraving is supposed to have been discovered when someone threw a heap of wet linen over a steel cuirass, later found it patterned from the intaglio work on the steel. Albrecht Dürer was reputedly driven to the solace of wood blocks by his wife's demeanor after her hard day's washing. More recent and not at all apocryphal is the account handed down by Johann Nepomuk Franz Aloys Senefelder, a ragtag Bavarian actor & playwright, of the fretful day in 1796 when he was so poor he had neither paper nor ink with which...
...ambling, the pair presented a picture of human dejection in the golden rays of the afternoon sun on that highway leading from the nation's capital to the borders of France. It was obvious that some blows had been dealt the men's fortunes, for every movement in their demeanor was a sign of discouragement, disappointment, defeat...
...orderly schooling might have refined, this helter-skelter existence served to aggravate the amazing accent of an illiterate Hell's Kitchen ragamuffin which is now his principal financial asset. Stander's first important cinema role was in The Scoundrel (1935). His raucous, angry voice and guttersnipe demeanor stamped him immediately as a new and refreshing type, brought him a Hollywood contract. Since then We're in the Money, Page Miss Glory, If You Could Only Cook, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town and six other major pictures have been improved by his unvarying but authoritative version...