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Nothing brings such a thunderous frown to the dark brow of Josef Stalin as reports from the farm front that food production is lagging. Promptly agents of his Gay-Pay-Oo pounce (usually at night) on peasant laggards, ship them off from their ancestral farms to saw wood and split rocks in bleak Siberia. All last year food shortage gripped the Soviet Union, peasant deportations continued, prophesies flew that a peasant "passive strike" might crack the Stalin regime...
...hitting low, awarded the round to Schmeling. Then followed round after round of the kind of boxing which Schmeling-who usually plans to wear his opponents down slowly-likes best. But Baer's demeanor -his confident grins whenever Schmeling hit him, his backhand punches that made Schmeling frown and look at the referee- caused the crowd of 60,000 to wonder whether Baer was waiting rather than wearing down. In the tenth round, the crowd found...
...where her clean life has finally rewarded her with the job of madame. The worldly-wise young soldier reforms, when he learns that it is his mother who has confessed to his murder, and they depart for happiness in America, as Money-bags leaves the courtroom with a frown of frustration...
Critics found in Mrs. McCormick's portraits?with one exception all painted in the impressionistic vein with broad brush strokes, small attention to detail? bold, striking character studies. In her husband's picture which hung above the fireplace she had caught his quizzical domineering expression, the important frown he wears when "things in Washing- ton are going badly." She had not attempted to flatter Actress Katharine Cornell, wide of mouth, heavy of eyelid. There were two nudes because, Mrs. Mc-Cormick explained, "you can't have an exhibition without nudes." Amusing was what the artist called her "American Primitive...
...know," he continued glancing at an evening paper lying on his dressing poem table in the Colonial Theatre, "this man Stimson always seems to be frowning at something: first it's France, then Mexico, and now he gets in a long distance frown at Japan. If he keeps on frowning pretty soon his mustache will join forces with his hair and he will enter the Boston Dog Show as an English sheepdog...