Word: uglier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...save her life, falls in love with her. Meanwhile he is approached by a criminal (Karloff) who wants his features altered to escape detection. Because Karloff, anxious to mend his ways, believes that "ugly people do ugly things," he begs to be made better looking. Instead, Lugosi makes him uglier still, enslaves him by promising to do a better job next time. Spurned by the girl and reproached by her father, Lugosi decides to torture them to death with such a Poetic device as a slowly descending, knife-blade pendulum. In the end he is thwarted by Karloff who chooses...
...London (Universal). Cinemaddicts who reacted properly to Mark of the Vampire (TIME, May 6) are likely to be even more perturbed by this ugly blossom from the spring's crop of horror pictures. Werewolves are not as eerie as vampires but they are faster, more ferocious and make uglier noises. A sprig of bat-thorn, as seasoned cinemaddicts are well aware, will keep a vampire outdoors. For werewolves, bat-thorn is as innocuous as the parsley on a mashed potato and the only flower that has any effect at all is the "mariphasa," which blooms by moonlight...
...briny tears at the loss of Saturday's game, and the loss of the goal-posts, Joseph Wright, head of the lost and-found department added a last touch to the desolate picture: he calmly produced from the debris of the aftermath a bull-dog--full-blooded, ferocious and uglier than Handsome...
...factory for the night, Carl fretted and fumed, let discontent and darkness bring to a head what might have become a riot. When the men came back to work after the holiday Carl had fired a crowd of the best workers, among them Hagen. A strike followed, feeling grew uglier day by day. Finally the police shot a scab by mistake, thinking he was a picketer. One of the strikers' leaders was arrested for the crime. When Carl and his higher-ups decided that the police were not giving them enough help they armed a posse, drove the picketing...
...pictures, "In This Corner. . .", a glimpse of a negro welterweight hunched on his stool under the shadow of his handlers while the referee howls out the announcements, and "The Neighborhood Champ," a picture of an ugly plug climbing into the ring while his uglier friends cheer, deserve especial attention. Mr. Riggs has succeeded in catching excellently the impact of the environment on the different personalities, the tenseness of the fighters, the nonchalance of the handlers, and the exhibitionism of the referee...