Word: leer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about and told many times, with many variations. Two years ago M-G-M decided that a story based on Rasputin and the Russian court would be ideal material to exhibit the varied talents of the Barrymore family. Ethel could be regal and throaty as the Tsarina. Lionel could leer and spit as Rasputin. John could push his delicate profile through a series of love scenes as a Prince Chegodiev. There was also a Princess Natasha with whom Chegodiev was in love. When Rasputin seduces Princess Natasha, Chegodiev proceeds to murder the monk in accord with history...
...have read Ulysses once in its entirety and I have read those passages of which the Government particularly complains several times. . . . In Ulysses, in spite of its unusual frankness, I do not detect anywhere the leer of the sensualist. I hold therefore that it is not pornographic...
...mussing her hair. The Barbarian (M e t r o-Goldwyn- Mayer) contains a personage whose type used to be almost as important in the cinema as the cowboy whom he helped to supplant. He is a sheik wearing a romantic turban, bedsheets and a polite but hungry leer. His name is Jamil (Ramon Novarro) and he is first seen functioning, for reasons of his own, as a guide to tourists in a Cairo hotel. When the proud but passionate fiancee (Myrna Loy) of a swagger young Englishman arrives to see the sights, it is not hard to guess...
...clothes at the World's Fair. When no decision was reached, someone suggested that the mannequins lift their skirts. Someone shouted, "Hike 'em up!" All the jurors tittered except Robert EcU mond ("Bobby") Jones, famed stage set designer. Said he sternly: "We came to look, not to leer...
Herex: "Quoting and imitating Joe, who is dead and consequently unable to tell his own story, Mrs. Schultz gnashed her teeth, assumed a diabolical leer, and cried: 'Didn't I tell you if you ever went gadding to that saloon again I'd kill you?' That was what poor Joe is supposed to have told his misunderstood wife before she resorted to her little gun to correct his manners...