Word: scowling
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Theodore Roosevelt, who grew up to brandish a big stick, got an early start as a collegiate boxer. An exhibit of photographs, letters and other TRivia that opened last week in Manhattan furnished some fierce pictorial proof: a bewhiskered Teddy in his teens in fighting rig (with scowl to match) as a Harvard undergraduate...
...been done before pops up in it sooner or later. But "The Three Musketeers" goes to such ludicrous extremes that it is hilarious. Every time something violent is about to come off, a short effective thunderstorm bursts upon the scene. The heroes are always smiling, and the villains always scowl. Nary a musketeer is scratched, while red-coated fiends are run through by the score. This all sounds tiresome, but the players operate with such incredible gusto that the whole affair becomes a delightful burlesque...
Every weekday morning around 11, a stooped figure with thick glasses, a glistening bald pate and a slight scowl would step off a Broadway bus and trudge to the plain edifice that houses the New York Times. Colleagues on the Times took no offense when kindly Simeon Strunsky failed to return their elevator nods; they all knew that he was nearsighted...
...stretch of the imagination, the only reason there seemed to be for John Lewis' scowl was force of habit-or a victory too easily won. With almost cynical resignation the coal operators had caved in to his demands. U.S. Steel's Ben Fairless and Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal's George Humphrey had led the parade. All the northern operators had followed. This week with the southern, midwestern and western operators awaiting John L.'s pleasure, union and management lawyers sweated out the final details of a contract...
Robert Cummings and Michele Morgan are a wooden and rather uninteresting pair of principals, and as a minor villain Peter Lorre plays another in a long line of roles which, in retrospect, seem all about the same. As chief heavy, a newcomer named Steve Cochran does little but scowl menacingly, in a picture wherein action moves at the pace of a snail and suspense is kept down to a minimum...