Word: leer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tone to the piece, a tone that was lacking in "Frankenstein," with its weakening comedy interludes. The extravagance and absurdity of the plot is somehow reconciled by the opening scene sin the mountebank's tent, which set the key for shivery theatricality. Mirakle, showman that he is, can heap leer on leer and only add to our pleasure...
...Smiling Lieutenant (Paramount) was expensively designed to provide Maurice Chevalier with proper and improper opportunities to display his ingratiating leer, wear a straw hat with dinner clothes, gurgle flip bedchamber music as the accompaniment of an amorous escapade. Ernst Lubitsch, hired to give the proceedings the correct continental air, used sarcastic burlesque to brighten up a plot which no one would need to be told came out of an Austrian novel. He had fairly good material to work with-the story of a young lieutenant who, during a review for visiting royalty, winked at his girl just as the Princess...
...barrel shape of the bird's body is reproduced exactly in the barrel shape of the woman of today who neither exercises physically nor exercises the least self-restraint upon her appetite. . . . Have you ever noticed the silly, self-satisfied expression of the penguin? It is almost a leer. That is the crowning point of resemblance. ... I have been speaking of . . . the woman over 25, the breeder of the race. My indictment is against the vast American woman. . . . The young girl is different, with this boyish form in which I find great charm...
...long desired by undergraduates and one which should greatly enhance the possibilities for Yuletide convivialities without disturbing the year's scholastic program. Although the announcement comes at that particular time in the year when any ordinary reference to Christmas provokes no more enthusiastic display of emotion than a reminiscent leer, it bears such an unmistakeable tang of Santa Claus about it that it justifies some comment...