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Hitler-"Never. You speak of your passionate love for peace. . . . Then suddenly you stiffen, you tighten your fists, you stick out your chin and you speak of Italian force...
...fattest supporting role in Kentucky is naturally that of a hot-tempered, horse-breeding old Kentucky squire. The picture's greatest virtue is that Walter Brennan plays him, chin whiskers and all, as though Peter Goodwin were a real human being, not a stock character. Typical sequence: Peter Goodwin selecting, from a collection of mediocre two-year-olds, the one that has "the look of eagles...
...Nett said that very little was known about Dodatmors--pronounced do-dat-more, with the last syllable strongly accented. In appearance they have large, somewhat square heads to make room for their huge brains. They also have high, slanting foreheads, under which a receding chin (which extends to their tall) begins almost immediately. When questioned as to why the fish appeared so calm and showed no sign of nervousness, supposed to be one of their chief characteristics, the doctor pointed out that their movements to and fro are of such rapidity that they could not be seen. He reluctantly admitted...
...particularly the royal ladies'-attitude toward the Duchess is needlessly punitive. He also resents the moral indignation raised against the Duchess by that class of English ladies so well represented by Lucy Baldwin, wife of the Prime Minister who pressured him off the throne. With his chin well out, the Duke was said to have introduced his lady to their visitors as "Her Royal Highness." The tall Prime Minister and the taller Foreign Secretary acknowledged, but scarcely confirmed this title with a bow. Later Paris socialites, abuzz over this first meeting since the abdication between the Duke...
...people, his tremendous dramatic punch, his dialogue, bracing as ozone. In every Odets play, regardless of its theme or its worth, at least once or twice during the evening every spectator feels that a fire hose has been turned on his body, that a fist has connected with his chin...