Word: squints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Throughout the first half of the Crawford version of this film, her appearance ; calculated to arrest Big Ben. A great wen clings to the side of Cinestar Crawford's face, distorting it to a grimace, pulling her eye into a squint.* Once revealed, it is seldom shown again. It does not have...
...item of $4,700,000 -principally bombproofing and dredging of the harbor-for Guam.* This time there was no such debate, no such delay. Pennsylvania's Charles Faddis down-with-Japanned; Representatives who had fought improvements for Guam two years ago now paid their respects to the "contemptible, squint-eyed sons of the Rising Sun." The authorization went through by acclamation, with one lone Nay registered against it: the methodical, dutiful Nay of New York's left-wing Vito Marcantonio, who has voted against almost every bill for U. S. defense...
...most French pictures at least the photography is beautiful. Here a high school movie puts it to shame: there are spots all over the screen, lighting effects are crudely overdone, and the focus is so often artily fuzzy that you squint, swear, and come out with sore eyes...
...with a red, chicken-hawk beak and whiskery white eyebrows bobbed off the train in Washington's Union Station one day last week. He paused, silent while photographers snapped his familiar beady-eyed, scowling squint, then stepped briskly into a long black limousine, and rode off towards the Capitol...
Three years ago Maine's salty Republican Senator Wallace Humphrey White Jr., grandfather of FCC, took a squint at the nation's ethereal affairs, promptly clamored loudly for a Senate investigation of radio networks and of his grandchild. But before Senate guns could be trained on the agency, Franklin Roosevelt whisked lively little Trouble Shooter Frank Ramsay McNinch of the Federal Power Commission to the chairmanship of FCC. Chairman McNinch cut out a lot of FCC deadwood, then began an investigation of the whole radio industry...