Word: underplayer
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...Tide," the latest film in Technicolor, is a great disappointment; first, Director James Hogan falls in love with his blues and greens, second, for the most part the actors either overplay or underplay their parts, and third, the picture starts so slowly that one is led to believe that the first two reels are still sitting in the Back Bay luggage room...
...answer to Marine inaction was being formulated in Washington by Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson. The Hoover Administration was deciding to underplay rather than overplay its military strength in Central America. Five days after the slaughter of the nine U. S. citi- zens, Secretary Stimson bluntly instructed U. S. diplomats and consular agents in Nicaragua as follows...