Word: pug
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robert Ryan in a hard-slugging account of the fall of an overaged pug (TIME, April...
...films as a female impersonator), Beery was a box-office favorite for years in such money-making pictures as Tugboat Annie and Min and Bill (with Marie Dressier), The Big House, Grand Hotel, Viva Villa!, won an Academy award in 1931 for his role as the good-natured pug-ugly in The Champ...
...hard glare on his unreflective brutality, his arrogance and his bursts of self-interested decency. Much of its punch comes from the sensitive performances of Arthur Kennedy and Paul Stewart. Its final wallop it owes to Kirk Douglas, who fills out every corner of Kelly's unattractive pug with bulging assurance and conviction...
...filibuster last week, some oldtimers had the uneasy feeling that they ought to go out into the Capitol's Statuary Hall and see if the bronze statue of Huey Long was still on its pedestal. Before them in the well of the Senate they saw Huey's pug-nosed, mischievous face, watched his arm chop the air, and heard the voice of Louisiana's murdered demagogue. Huey's 30-year-old son Russell was making his maiden speech...
...Marienhof did so well at begetting blue-blooded pups that three-quarters of the 24 boxers in the Special Champion Class last week, at the Westminster Kennel Club Show, had his blood in their veins. The best of them, in the opinion of the judges, was Wagner's pug-ugly Zazarac Brandy of Mazelaine, at 3 a veteran of 50 shows...