Word: browbeaten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Allan Hancock was the browbeaten son of an overbearing dowager who made him house his wife in the back yard of her vast Los Angeles estate. In 1925 he lost his only son, Bertram, in the Santa Barbara earthquake. He turned to mechanics, playing engineer at the throttle of his Santa Maria Valley Railroad engines; to aeronautics, learning to fly and fostering the Hancock Foundation College of Aeronautics in Santa Maria; to music, with serious and successful study of the cello; to yachting, with what has become a formidable interest in marine biology...
...that that is over this paper does not propose to be browbeaten any more for 'dern' his hide not even his family are mourning his death-they are all glad the mean old cuss has gone and where he has gone the Editor of this paper hopes he will not have...
...wrote again & again, a great man, a noble man, but also a human being, ambitious, shrewd, successful, passionate, with a man's share of disappointments, of humiliations, of unhappy love affairs, and with more than most men's share of melancholy. He was a foolish father, a browbeaten husband, at once sentimental and hard; a secretive man with his human share of stupidities and perplexities, his career marked, like all men's, with its broken friendships and its grotesque blunders. The Lincoln Herndon knew was a thoughtful, dry man whose wife's temper was a scandal...
Although supple and enterprising to the point of being Machiavellian. Dr. Schacht has the mind and technique of an orthodox banker. As Economics Minister he has browbeaten by sheer personality and held in check other bigwigs such as Labor Front Leader Dr. Robert Ley who as long ago as 1933 proclaimed: "He who organizes the profit mentality must go; he is a mortal enemy of the nation!" Nazi radicals like Dr. Ley have been trying to "get" Dr. Schacht all these years, but last week it was not they who got him. so far as correspondents could discover...
...from exhibiting her usual sweeping evening gowns and Grecian neckline. Typical shot: Errol Flynn athletically clearing some dunes of a large number of hostile Bedouins. You Can't Beat Love (RKO). Only effective method of waking up Lawyer Jimmy Hughes (Preston Foster) in the morning is for his browbeaten butler Jasper (Herbert Mundin) loudly to dare him to get out of bed. Once up, he joins a gang of ditchdiggers on a dare, swings pick & shovel in white tie and tails with Jasper in anguished attendance (see cut). He is dared to run for mayor by the incumbent...