Word: looke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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James A. Reed, Missouri Senator, tried to look puzzled as he reverted to his game of baiting the White House spokesman. "Why don't the newspapers photograph the White House spokesman?" said he to reporters. "What does this mysterious person look like? The newspapers are always printing pictures of people prominent in the news. The White House spokesman is always being quoted. He is constantly in the news. But I've never yet seen a picture...
...Colmar, in Alsace-Lorraine, a beady-eyed French lawyer stuck out his right forefinger, wagging it before the broad, shiny nose of an Alsatian priest, the Abbe Haegy. "Ha!" snorted the lawyer, "look me in the eye! Look into the eyes of a Frenchman, M. l'Abbé, and tell me if you will not shout with me 'VIVE LA FRANCE...
...Look at me! [finger wagging), look into the eyes of a Frenchman! [wagging more slowly] Will you not shout...
...mais oui!" shouted the Abbe Haegy suddenly, "I am French! VIVE!! VIVE LA FRANCE!! ... I withdraw my suit. . . . VIVE LA FRANCE!! . . . Look into my eyes, Monsieur, the eyes of a Frenchman, I swear it! VIVE LA FRANCE...
...Triumph of the Rat. U. S. cinema producers-content for nine-tenths of the year with dispensing sentimental froth and such subtitles as: "Morning came, but the heart of the beautiful lady was dark with despair"-may well take another look at Europe, the land of Variety, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Rat and its sequel, The Triumph of the Rat. This last named film (an English production) is "shot" from shrewd angles; contains Paris den and ballroom scenes; has a lean, dark hero (Ivor Novello) who can make love like a gentleman and gnaw a bone dramatically...