Word: brow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...students who might later attend his Viennese clinics to his legitimate profit as a teacher. But the press took him up; touted him throughout the land; raised fond hopes in hearts of cripples everywhere. These rushed to his free clinics. He was their Messiah. Back of his tired, wrinkled brow, back of his white beard and moustache, they saw only the kindly doctor. From overwork he almost broke down. Then the American Medical Association and other regular societies pitched on him, lambasted him, almost kept him from getting his license to practice in New York. Already, in 1902, Illinois...
Quietly through his pince-nez Mr. Rosenwald looked at his associates. They saw a gentle, dignified man, oval of face, high of brow, thoughtful of eye, pleasant of lips-lips which by a phrase had often given millions in thoughtful charity. They were to hear those lips make as fair a proposition as ever was laid before business...
...magic strain, led rocks, trees and beasts to follow him; I know that the notes of Orpheus entranced them and enthralled the underworld and caused the gods to gaze thereon with envy, and I know that David drew from his harp a chord which swept the gloom from the brow of Saul and flooded Israel's palaces with music and laughter." (Applause...
...presence of the President he proceeded to call the Senate to ac- count for wasting its time and the country's, telling it that it ought to be ashamed of the way it allowed filibusters to frustrate its action - ashamed! - until the blushes rose even to the brow of the modest President who sat waiting to be inaugurated (TIME, March...
...tonk joints of Tia Juana; they were listening to tones as strident as peroxided hair, to rhythms that strutted like Negro girls in diamond tiaras. "The most authentic piece of music," said Carl Van Vechten, "that ever came out of America." Critics hurried to crown with bayleaf the youthful brow of George Gershwin. Walter Damrosch besought him to write a jazz concerto for the New York Symphony Society; Composer Gershwin said he would...