Word: snarl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vagabond arises; he leaps out of the four-poster in the tower, his face merry in the light of the noon sun. As his feet touch the floor, and his knees buckle under him, his joyous expression contracts to a snarl. He wabbles to the fixtures, where he pours himself a goblet of cold water. It runs down his throat, and into his stomach, every inch of its course distinctly felt. A sensation of feeble exhilaration comes over him, and he puts on his raiment, slowly, with hands that will not quite close. The prospect of a meal seems strangely...
...usually interesting, if not amusing, but with the market flooded with this type of movie, a poor or mediocre one falls decidedly flat. With a decidedly poor plot to begin with, Morris and Blondell--to whom credit must be given for being well chosen for their parts--emote, snarl, and wisecrack at each other in a half hearted manner, Blondie's high pressure, big, beautiful, blue eyes exude sex appeal which usually missed the mark, and Morris has a difficult time in his dramatic, but obvious, moments...
...nature picture. The natives seize Fay Wray, tie her up as a sacrifice to their god, King Kong. Presently the producer and his associates catch their first glimpse of King Kong. He is a gigantic whatnot resembling an ape, 50 feet tall, equipped with large teeth and a thunderous snarl. He picks up Fay Wray in one hand as though she were a frog and shuffles off through the jungle, breaking trees and grunting...
...women marched over the hard cobblestones and sharp rocks of the highway towards a suburb of Paris. Thin rags hung about them for clothes, their shoes showed great holes, and the filth of a century clung to them like a disease. On every animal face there was a snarl and a sneer that represented the discontent of a thousand others, and the lines and hollows that only starvation can leave distorted their features. They hardly knew where they were going, yet they dreamt that each painful step they took would bring them nearer to food, to the Baker...
...States operating at chaotic cross purposes. But complications threatened when the attorneys who had been seeking receivership for their clients protested that Judge Faris had acted beyond his jurisdiction. Judge Faris again took the problem under consideration with the observation that the Frisco had "gotten itself into an unholy snarl." Later he appointed John Gerdes Lonsdale, president of Mercantile-Commerce Bank & Trust and 1929-30 president of A. B. A., as a co-receiver with Mr. Kurn...