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Word: pout (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shoes, but his wife outplays him. She proved in Coquette that in spite of 20 years in silent stories she could talk a difficult emotional role better than most contemporary stage actresses. Now she is Katherine from head to heels?a stormy, pretty vixen with just a shadow of pout left to remind you that she was once called "America's Sweetheart." Lucky children will be taken by wise parents to see this Taming of the Shrew during Christmas holidays. Best shot: the marriage scene of Katherine in her fine gown and Petruchio who comes late to church, in Fool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 9, 1929 | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...petulant stenographer's pout and a pair of plump small legs do not carry Nancy Carroll through as the bit of sweetening in "Manhattan Cocktail," the current cinema at the Metropolitan. This movie is shaken up from one of those left-on-the-doorstep scenarios that bring in everything but the fall of Babylon to prove that New York City is a great big mouse trap for boys and girls away from home. It has some cleve post-Ufa photography and a lot of heavy breathing around the hapless Miss Carroll to drum up interest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 11/24/1928 | See Source »

...Story. A mighty man, this Richard Hogarth, farmer, with brown skin, round brow, moles on his cheek, lips "negroid in their thick pout," eyes brown, bloodshot, "imperially large...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Super-Man* | 10/13/1924 | See Source »

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