Word: wolfish
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...Russian lines, French Agent Caroline de Salanches is retreating equally rapidly from Prince Michael Dubrovin. During an orgy at his estate, Prince Michael has exposed Agent Caroline. In fact, he has left her without a stitch of covering above the waist. The air is filled with shrieks, screams and wolfish roars as the Russian nobility, ever lovers of traditional customs, pursue nude serfs round and round the banquet hall. But Caroline is resolved at least to keep her head. As Prince Michael bears down upon her, his "greedy and sarcastic gaze" inflamed with "voluptuous contempt," Caroline puts a torch...
...Hollywood's version of Mission to Moscow, the purge trial prosecutor has a black beard, black, beetling eyebrows and a wolfish snarl. When the film got a private screening in the Kremlin in 1943, the real prosecutor at those strange and gloomy assizes, a clean-shaven man with white hair and a pink face, almost collapsed with laughter-laughter directed not only against the movie but against the popular cliche of that day that a Russian Bolshevik was a man with a black beard and a bomb in his hand. If, twelve years later, the popular conception...
...story concerns Richard Sherman, a married New Yorker whose wife is away for the summer. Married for seven years and on earth for almost 40, he has reached that half-wolfish, half-mousy point when the eye begins to wander but the ego to worry, when Caspar Milquetoast sounds an alarm clock on Walter Mitty's dreams. There is an attractive young lady (Vanessa Brown) who lives in the apartment above Richard, and with whom he gets very pleasantly enmeshed. But there is a gaudy imagination and a lurid conscience that live within him, through which he gets enmeshed...
Invited to "entertain" at a Harvard freshman smoker, Fan Dancer Sally Rand decided to give her performance a new twist. She turned up in ermine wrap and strapless evening gown, smiled at the wolfish whistles as she took off her fur announced: "That's as far as I go tonight." After a song & dance, she launched into a ten-minute lecture on the evils of Communism. The disappointed freshmen lobbed about a quarter's worth of pennies at the stage, and one grumbled later, "The whole idea was to have a good time, not listen to politics...
...bought for his radio following; it was clear that he had to keep on singing. It was also clear that a man can't very well burst into song with both guns smoking and his spurs mixed up in a dead heavy; so the primordial, hard-riding, lone-wolfish hero (best personified by Bill Hart) gave way to the more folksy, even mildly urbane type. Gene and Roy Rogers, like their prototypes, turn up in time's nick to liquidate wrongdoers and still ride fast to get there, but they are never the grim-lipped supermen...