Word: leer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meeting room, waiting room, four consultation rooms, and two experimental rooms. On two afternoons a week students and instructors and a few practising physicians of Boston gather in the meeting room where, like flies on the wall, the framed countenances of the founders of modern philosophy and psychology leer down upon us, austerely critical. It is a livable house with no mammoth marble columns to remind us of the Roman Parthenon or the First National Bank, and no reinforced concrete to establish in our minds conceptual images of ourselves-as factory workers...
Italian correspondents, impressionable, reported that their blood "ran cold'' as they watched a notorious "Mafia Queen," Giuseppa Salvo, 62, receive her 25-year sentence "with a sinister look and a ferocious leer...
...account, a copy of which had to be toned down for the Tribune's New York offspring (Daily News), gloated over "the pottery barrage and the volley of language which accompanied it?language familiar to the gaudy-sashed lumberjacks but seldom heard at social functions." There was a besmirching leer in the Tribune's subhead: "Four Trucks of Booze." And when the bride and groom retired to the top floor of the Hotel Shelton, Manhattan, a Tribune correspondent was alone in smirking: "There was no throwing of plates or potato salad?probably because Mrs. Fifi Potter Stillman . . . was not along...
...protect his already hopeless face from Mr. Wills's outlashing fists, waited until the fourth round to bash Mr. Wills over backwards against the ropes, down on the floor, down on the floor again. Then M. Uzcudun lay on the floor himself, flipped himself erect with a comic leer and said: "Paolino Uzcudun, champion du monde!" Champion du monde (of the world) he was anything but, having demonstrated very little except that Mr. Wills is a total anachronism. Josef Paul Cukoschay (Jack Sharkey), Boston sailor, demonstrated the same thing some months ago (TIME, Oct. 25). At that time...
POWER - Lion Feuchtwanger - Viking Press ($2.50). The handsome, malevolent features of Joseph Suss Oppenheimer leer through hazy German history. A moneylender, fawning but audacious, he makes himself indispensable to Duke Karl Alexander of Swabia, the peace of whose hairy bosom depends only upon war, wine and women. As finance minister, Suss rises to a cruel, dizzy pinnacle, from which he plunges voluntarily when his duties as procurer for the ducal bed involve his own daughter. He avenges her suicide and atones, with racial intensity, on the execution platform.... The treatment of prodigious figures in a pageantric time...