Word: limp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, in Manhattan one of the most remarkable of these contemporary horsey artists was having a one-man show at the Walker Galleries. A lanky man of 42 with a boyish, weathered face, bristling grey hair and swinging limp, Artist Lee Townsend is probably the only professional horse trainer in the U. S. who is also a professional painter. His race-track pictures are consequently as authentic in their day as Ben Marshall's pictures of small-headed, satiny thoroughbreds, gaitered grooms and upright jockeys were...
...real. Mr. Job reduced her to a bad caricature-foil for his heroine, Madeline Neroni. Made-line (Ina Claire), with her father who is in the Church and her brother, who is in embroidery, comes home from Italy and an unhappy marriage. Immediately bored with Barchester, she invents a limp, steals a stuffy clergyman from a stuffy blonde, acts like a younger, cuter Sanger child and, in a magnificently anticlimactic scene, puts her foolish enemies to shame. Along with all this goes a little pleasant dialog, a little minor plotting, a great deal of patronizing archness on the part...
Fact is, he quoted my own sentiments exactly. Fact is also, your answer will satisfy only that handful of "experts" who rate artistic pratique through some strange omniscient power to see Art in limp watches and nauseating distortions of the commonplace...
Wise Tomorrow* (by Stephen Powys; produced by Bernard Klawans). Tucked into programs at Wise Tomorrow's, opening was a printed enclosure: "Miss Barrett's limp is due to a sprained ankle." Long before 11 o'clock the play had developed other limps much more pronounced than Miss Barrett's and not so easily explained away. With an infirm grip on the unlovely figure of Lesbianism, novice British Playwright Powys had dragged it through three bumpy acts, upsetting the lives of an abashed cast and sending Manhattan first-nighters out into the October air looking gloomy...
...tries in vain to better matters with dignified restraint. Gloria Dickson, the Pocatello, Idaho girl who stepped from the Federal Theatre into Hollywood fame (They Won't Forget), endowed the young actress with dazzling blondness and a fresh, strong prairie accent. As her sister, Edith Barrett, despite the limp and a tendency to Fletcherize her lines, turned in the best performance...