Word: slobbering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...finest clown in Rome-none other, as he glumly reflects, than himself. Lon Chaney goes off on a tear in the part of tragic Tito. While it puts some limit upon his metamorphic talent, he is able still to twist his face into many a contorted grin and to slobber frequently with sorrow. Laugh, Clown, Laugh is a trite picture and not a true one, but it succeeds surprisingly often in its lugubrious intentions...
...noise made by the dogs was loud and horrible. A small, stupid child, like many who attended the dog show, reached out a paw toward a vast belligerent St. Bernard who was lounging in his sawdust covered stall, swathed in a towel lest the slobber from his mouth should stain his sleek and tonsured fur. The St. Bernard lurched bellowing at the child; a collie barked at the St. Bernard; an Airedale yelped at the collie; soon, all the dogs were in a noisy fury. The people whose business it was to care for the dogs were never disconcerted; they...
When Lawson became a partner of Melville E. Stone, he made a covenant with him that neither would buy the securities of any public service corporation for fear they might lay their paper open to the suspicion of serving that green-backed, slobber-jawed ogre, THE INTERESTS...
...William Orpen. His painting was the exception: A white bear stands in the glare of a Paris prize ring. There is blood at his feet; he has just consummated upon a human bruiser, now unconscious, brutalities so magnificent that spectators of every sex, replete with ecstasy at the spectacle, slobber and clip, heedless of an ape that sits among them, scrutinizing with remote but kindly cynicism their delirious reversion to the bestial. "Hogarthian," said the critics. "Horrible," said the quality...