Word: facial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other feature is "Love, Honor, and Oh Baby," a humorous burlesque upon heart balm suits. The facial expressions of Slim Summerville, Zasu Donald Meek, and George Barbier, united in one picture afford good comedy...
...will peter out in pestilence, famine, revolution and exhaustion ten years later. Its immediate cause: a Polish Jew with an ill-fitting dental plate. A passenger on a crowded train halted in Danzig station, he modestly turns his face to the window to struggle with the refractory plate. His facial contortions are misinterpreted by a hot-headed Nazi on the platform ... an argu- ment . . . the Nazi shoots the Jew . . . the war-dogs are slipped...
...tuba experiments. Tubaman James Austin Houston who plays in radio station WLW has a bellows contraption called an aerophor attached to his instrument (TIME, Dec. 14, 1931). He pumps it with his foot to shoot auxiliary air up through a hose into his mouth where, by a special facial technique, he shoots it back into the instrument. Tubaman Houston is puny. His aerophor is purely a lung-saving device. William Bell's invention is not for weak tubamen. It does the work of two tubas-a double bass and a baritone. It has two mouthpieces, two sets of tubing...
...president-emeritus of Princeton University; of internal hemorrhages when he drove his Packard sedan (given him by Princeton's trustees upon his retirement last June) into a Chevrolet beer truck near Woodbridge, N. J. His wife, 70, riding in the back seat, sustained a fractured skull and facial cuts from her smashed eyeglasses. Police thought Dr. Hibben must have suffered a stroke or fainted at the wheel before the crash. Born in Peoria. Ill., son of a minister, he was graduated with honors by Princeton in 1882, Princeton Theological Seminary in 1886 (after a year at Berlin University...
Obviously such facial gymnastics give maximum carrying power to the Premier's expressions, permit what he is saying with his face to be seen by people too far away to hear him. Significant shots: 1) the Dictator's completely self-effacing wife standing gracious and well dressed beside Il Duce, who seems genuinely unaware of her existence, at the marriage of their daughter Edda to Count Ciano; 2) Pietro Cardinal Gasparri, paying no visible attention as Premier Mussolini reads to him parts of the Lateran Treaty, and having to be energetically roused and instructed by a young Catholic...