Word: browbeaten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...show of the later drawings of James Grover Thurber. Gallerygoers, stepping sideways like crabs, passed from frame to frame in which were exposed the backs of old letterheads and odd sheets of scratch paper on which were scrawled the amiable bloodhounds, the horrid boneless women, the bald, browbeaten little men of Artist Thurber, associate editor and one of the two most successful members" of the staff of The New Yorker...
...each other for the first time. In every case one of the two took instant command of the situation, reduced the other to submission. The bully got 97% of the food, started all but a negligible percentage of the fights, never cowered, seldom retreated. To this treatment the browbeaten monkey responded by passivity, cringing, flight, or female sex behavior, regardless of the sex of the pair...
Last week General Hugh S. Johnson found himself in much the same sort of hot water as other employers of labor who had been badly scalded by NRA's rigid rules on unionism. Industrialists whom the NRAdministrator had browbeaten into accepting collective bargaining were anything but sympathetic...
...dozen Japanese, led by browbeaten Liberal Peer Inazo Nitobe, and including an intransigent retired Major-General named Yasunosuke Sato...
...sharp Swedish cartoon last fortnight flayed the Jewish scientist's plight in Nazi-land. The cartoon showed two browbeaten Germans eyeing a burly lout in the Nazi uniform who was striding through a university hall. First citizen: "What is the policeman doing here?" Second citizen: "Sh, sh. That is the man selected to succeed Einstein...