Word: facing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week. When he said that humans still look as fishes do, his audience thought of those coldly glaring individuals popularly called "fishy-eyed" because their eyes have the impersonal stare of a dead fish. Dr. Wiseman meant that human eyes are not set squarely on the front of the face. Human eyes are cocked slightly to each side...
...pretty knees and nonsense: Manhattan Mary, The Mikado, Hit the Deck, Funny Face, Good News, Connecticut Yankee...
London After Midnight gives Lon Chaney another opportunity to make his face even more threatening and unpleasant than usual. He does this because he is a highly efficient Scotland Yard detective on the trail of grave-walking, werewolfish murderers who haunt a house near London. The rest must remain a mystery; as such, it is well worth squirming about...
...Valley of the Giants. Through the gloom cast by enormous forests and the fact that the girl he loves is the niece of the man who is cutting down his father's trees, Bryce Cardigan (Milton Sills) staggers, twisting his face with the effort of carrying too much drama for any three cinemas. Doris Kenyon, as the girl he loves, though nice to look at, cannot give him much help...
...violinist scratched his fiddle, other members of a jazz-orchestra made their respective sounds. For 33 hours and ten minutes the bandleader lead his determined performers through one jazz song after another, an interval of 45 seconds distinguishing each song from its successor. Then the bandleader stopped, mopped his face, and claimed that his orchestra had gained a record-the record for playing longer than any other jazz-orchestra...