Word: browbeaten
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...physical resemblance between the judge and Adolphe Menjou has often been remarked, but the supple expressiveness of his face is more like Charlie Chaplin's. This is especially true of a certain browbeaten look he sometimes puts on, as though he were just a poor old gaffer at the mercy of all comers. This martyred look will break up into a smile if it is challenged, but sooner or later it will be resumed with a distant glance at nothing and a sighed "Well, well, you never can tell." The look has definite functions. In his New York apartment...
...mood proves strong enough to survive the story, though at times it almost flickers away. A young Italian immigrant (Gene Kelly) sets out to avenge his father, who was murdered by the gang for trying to report an extortion threat. Persuaded to organize the browbeaten community into resistance, Kelly is flung by the hoodlums into the first mass meeting, battered, bleeding and almost dead. Then he hits on the more cautious idea of sending a veteran Italian-American detective (J. Carrol Naish) to Italy to dig up criminal records that will enable the U.S. to deport its immigrant thugs...
...market; Austin Motor bravely slashed the prices of its cars from $75 to $1,000, cutting its profits to ribbons. Other British automakers groaned: "We'd better get out of the American market." As their contracts with U.S. buyers broke down (2,561 cases since last July), browbeaten businessmen ran to the Board of Trade's "Advisory Panel on Frustrated Exports" for permission to unload in the British market...
...show that Soviet countries do not purge all those who disagree with Communism, Kolman pointed to Charles University's Jan B. Kozak, an avowed but browbeaten non-Marxist who had come to Amsterdam as an "innocent front" for Czechoslovakia's Marxist delegation. As Kolman spoke, the old professor turned his face away...
...history books, Dr. Dunbar hints, are full of examples of psychosomatic illness. British Prime Minister William Gladstone developed a "diplomatic cold" whenever he faced a difficult or distasteful debate. Elizabeth Barrett, browbeaten daughter of a tyrannical father, was a bedridden invalid for 20 years-and was cured almost overnight when, at the age of 40, she met and married Robert Browning. In the Ode to a Nightingale, observes Dr. Dunbar, John Keats wrote a perfect, succinct description of a psychosomatic patient: "I have been half in love with easeful Death...