Word: glumly
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...their emotions. The boy Jody is well played by a twelve-year-old Tennessee schoolboy named Claude Jarman Jr. His father, Penny Baxter (described by Novelist Rawlings as a scrawny, narrow-shouldered runt), is acted with clean competence-a mite too clean -by handsome Gregory Peck, 6ft. 3 in. Glum, discouraged Ma Baxter is impersonated with affecting skill by Jane Wyman, whose talents have been wasted for years by Warner Bros, in pert ingénue roles. But even in scrubbed, unlipsticked make-up Miss Wyman's trim face & figure are a glamorized caricature of the novel...
...After the war, in token that he had been forgiven for the Finnish fiasco, Zhdanov was made head of the Finnish Control Commission. Finns expected the worst, but Zhdanov is too hardheaded to bear a grudge. At Helsinki's airport a glum honor guard of Finns was lined up to meet him. Said Zhdanov in Finnish, "Hyvää päivää pojat" (Hello, boys). The soldiers stood stonily for a long Finnish moment, then grinned back and said, almost in chorus: "Hyvää päivää Kenraali" (Hello, General...
...words will pass from this scene like breath upon the winter air," he told glum Dutchess County Democrats. "And so they are unimportant, except to quicken the spirit of deep affection that Franklin Roosevelt inscribed in the hearts of his fellow...
...Harlow Glum at Game...
Gone was the day when Manny Shinwell could generously tell a group of glum businessmen that after Labor was done with industry there would "still remain something like 80% and you can play around with that if you like." Now he roared that there was "no department of public activity, whether national or local, in which Labor hasn't got to have a finger in the pie." He thundered at .his hearers: "We must be in everything because we are the country...