Word: frowningly
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...writes his own material, virtually runs both shows singlehanded. To thousands of moppets who watch Comics daily, he is a genial, long-faced man in a crushed top hat, an outsized bow tie and a bulky black sweater, who moves with rubbery ease from classic grin to classic frown. "I act like a king-size kid myself," says Soupy, "and talk right to them just like I would a bank president." As pitchman he is less happy. Too often he is called upon to spray himself with Bactine disinfectant and sing "Down go the mean old germs," take great chunks...
Nolan's highlighting Australia's wild and woolly past has caused many an official frown. Grumped one Australian government official: "It is a pity that Australia should be represented in a modern art museum by a criminal." But Nolan, who keeps returning to the Kelly theme on his painting trips through southeast Asia and Europe, maintains, "Kelly was the one genuine Australian hero-even if Australians are ashamed to admit...
...does," snapped McClellan with a frown, "and a million and a half union members in this country have some rights that this committee has been trying to protect...
...frown begins with a line biting deep into the bridge of the broad nose. Thin, pale lips turn thinner, paler. Behind black-rimmed glasses, eyes glow with a suggestion of banked-and therefore controlled -inner fires. The voice takes over from the frown. Deep and strong ("I have always had a commanding voice"), it needs no microphone to help it carry. Questions come slowly, in careful Southern cadence. In the voice, as if measured carefully by the tapping of a finger on a mahogany table, are righteousness and rebuke, sarcasm and sadness, incredulity and indignation. Never is there unrestrained anger...
...Both the frown and the voice have been made famous on radio and television...