Word: pug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Overdone in spots and half-baked in others. Sweet Mystery of Life proves chunky, pug-nosed Gene Lockhart (Ah, Wilderness!) a comedian who can make much out of little. One member of the cast who seems to enjoy himself is bulky Broderick Crawford, son of owl-eyed Comedienne Helen Broderick...
...other by piano advertisements it is not easy to paint the portrait of a man whose influence on contemporary thought is exceeded perhaps only by that of his pupils. Look through the frame, gentleman, and envisage the character; It is Athens over 2000 years ago. A pug-nosed goggled-eyed philosopher has just sneaked away from his unsympathetic wife and is heading for the market place. There he knows he will meet Plato and Glancon and other men with whom he can examine this all too unexamined life. As they retire to the quiet of some nearby olive grove they...
...large Tokyo department store shrewd Merchant Hikoichie Nato looked out beneath his large level eyebrows at a pug-nosed intense young man in tortoise-shell glasses who offered to sell him a fat share of a fine, ruthless, patriotic Japanese Revolution. "We need 100,000 yen ($29,000)," explained Revolutionist Tatsuo Amano, a lawyer of nationwide notoriety since he defended the assassins of Finance Minister Junnosuke Inouye and Financier Baron Dr. Takuma Dan (TIME, July 10, 1933). As the merchant hesitated, the revolutionist argued slyly: "Consider the 100,000 yen you contribute to our cause as an investment. Sell shares...
...Marquisa de Pontejos, No.1 Goya in the U. S., is a portrait of a lady with a bouffant skirt, a single rose and a lively little pug dog. It was last seen publicly in Madrid in 1928 when Mr. Mellon lent it to the great Goya Centennial Exposition. Carman Messmore of the Knoedler Galleries calls it "probably the finest Goya in the world...
...consistently kicking on second down. Not until the second half does the Bierman team open up with its prodigious line drives, cunning spinners, adroit passes. This style of play calls for teamwork by titans, and Coach Bierman has a squad full of them. His three ace rushers are Captain Pug Lund, who was playing his final game in the home stadium last week; Julius Alfonse, who has averaged 10 yd. every time he has been given the ball this season; and the hero of Minnesota's "Hook 'Em Cow" club, Fullback Stanislaus Clarence ("Stockyard Stan") Kostka...