Word: hangdog
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...group of preliminary drawings were on view, all grouped under the generic title of "Feminanities." Typical was one called Hope Springs Eternal. In a department-store basement a group of bedraggled female shoppers, including a spectacled schoolteacher, a colored wench and a draggled woman in a raincoat and hangdog stockings, are standing around a counter at which a pert blonde shopgirl is demonstrating some kind of face cream...
...story, told as a cutback from the recital of Mary Shelley herself, who tells it to her husband (Douglas Walton) and Lord Byron (Gavin Gordon), has none of the hangdog air that one expects in sequels. Screenwriters Hurlbut & Balderston and Director James Whale have given it the macabre intensity proper to all good horror pieces, but have substituted a queer kind of mechanistic pathos for the sheer evil that was Frankenstein. Henry VIII had enough wives to make four screen stars. Elsa Lanchester is the latest to gain stellar fame in Hollywood, having had the way paved...
...with lazy brutality. Compressing in time rather than exaggerating in degree the sordid materialism of lazy back-countrymen, it moved Manhattan reviewers to call its characters "livestock," "pigs," "guinea pigs," "weird savages," "the primitive human animal writhing in the throes of gender," "foul and degenerate parcel of folks," "the hangdog and hookworm...
Thus a complete break last August-at which time Adolf Hitler had been called in only to be asked by the President whether he would enter and support the "Cabinet of Monocles" headed by Lieut. Colonel Franz von Papen. With dejected, hangdog mien Der Osaf left Der Reichspräsident...
...week's revival, heavy, slavish, magnificent as he sang his one song, half-hypnotized by it. Dennis King was new too as Ravenal, the gambler who marries Cap'n Andy's Magnolia (Norma Terris). Helen Morgan was back as the quadroon with her fluttering hands and hangdog look...