Word: soft
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from Biograph to Reliance, Majestic, Fine Arts, Artcraft, First National, United Artists. Somehow, no matter how bad the scenario was, her intelligence brought to certain moments and situations that reality which is the definition of great acting and which Miss Gish's famous frailty, her dimples, her soft, elliptical face, and her pale hair down to her waist could not keep people from recognizing. Now under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, she is directed by Victor Seastrom...
...Hoover was described by Willis J. Abbot as "a stocky blond . . . who always wears a Derby hat!"?although he almost never wears one, and although even morons know that the "Derby" is the symbol of Candidate Smith. Incidentally the picture of Candidate Hoover published by Britannia showed him soft-hatted. Willis J. Abbot added that Herbert Hoover "looks like a 'Herb...
Observing an ancient, time-honored custom, the students not only voted but also fought for possession of the polls. The Baldwin supporters having gained a strategic position by the voting booths were attacked with 60,000 putrescent eggs, countless heads of codfish, and soft rotten fruit. Malodorous and hideous became the normally pleasant sward of the University...
...like Britisher Laura Knight's baldly anatomical Dressing for the Ballet. This study was too frank to be voluptuous. Squeamish persons felt as if they had opened the wrong door. But Eileen, a seated girl in a chemise, thrilled everyone with its pliancy of shoulders, arms, tapering hands. A soft sidewise fall of light allowed Miss Dod Procter the use of tremulous chiaroscuro. She is an adept in the nuances of reflected light, a familiar phase of architectural rendering, an annoying technical problem...
...characters speak in southern dialect, and to these northern ears seem to do it convincingly. But it is in this field that one discordant note rises. Amidst all this soft speaking the casting of the younger brother of the heroine has been such that the actor speaks in the nasal accent of toity-told street. This is really to be regretted as it is thoroughly jarring to pass from the melody of Helen Hayes to the harshness and total lack of southern accent of a supposed brother as impersonated by Andrew Lawlor...