Word: gauntly
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...takes a situation which cinema generally treats as melodrama, and makes it into a comedy which is not quite a farce. The scene is a courtroom but the principal character is not the actress (Jill Esmond) who, charged with murder, occupies the defendant's chair. Heroine is a gaunt and fluttering matron, Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane (Edna Mae Oliver) who arrives, with her maid and chauffeur, to serve on the jury. She salutes the judge, whom she has met socially. Her conduct during the trial borders on disdain, if not contempt, of court. In the jury room Mrs. Crane shows...
Thomas Nast invented most of the vocabulary of the U. S. political cartoon. He invented the figure of gaunt Uncle Sam, the Tammany Tiger (a reference to the tiger painted on the dashboard of Boss Tweed's old fire engine, now in the Museum of the City of New York), the Democratic Donkey and Republican Elephant. No other U. S. cartoonist has ever equaled his power, the strength of his line. Out of fashion for ten years before he died, he accepted the post of U. S. consul at Guayaquil, Ecuador from President Roosevelt, died at his post of yellow...
...Before the introduction of photo-engraving the U. S. illustrated magazines (Scribner's, Harper's, Century) employed a group of U. S. wood-block engravers of unmatched dexterity. They copied oil paintings, photographs, etchings, drawings. To the day of his death gaunt irascible Joseph Pennell urged their recognition by serious art critics. Most of them were of German descent. Timothy Cole, ablest, best-known, was British-born...
...Gaunt mothers with hunger-pinched babies, hollow-eyed youths, twitching old men, shamefaced Frauleins big with child -in all 1,000 utterly miserable people sat down in Vienna last week to the Third Annual Banquet of the Advisory Centre For Intending Suicides. Anyone consulting the Advisory Centre is promised and may depend upon: 1) "absolute secrecy" (not even the police will be told); 2) "absolute non-interference with the final decision" (no prospective suicide will be nagged, browbeaten or cajoled into remaining alive). During the hearty banquet last week leading Viennese stage folk (not all of them comedians) did their...
...course, who was responsible for all this, who walked in "the ghoul-haunted woodlands of Weir" and though of "what man never dared to think before." Now the Vagabond himself is something of an authority on gaunt and ghastly ghouls and fifty-six other varieties of spooks, but he is anxious to hear Professor Matthiessen's lecture on Poe today at 10 o'clock in Harvard...