Word: browed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Holbrook used the phrase "political nigger lovers" in denouncing Mrs. De Priest's visit to the White House, Senator Love rushed at him savagely, shouting: "Any man who says the 300,000 Texans who voted for Hoover are nigger-lovers has the word LIAR branded across his brow." In Florida, another Negro-subjugating state that voted for Hoover, a resolution was passed, 71 to 13, in the state house, condemning "certain social policies of the administration. . . ." In presenting it, Representative Way, Democrat, said: "The State of Florida has been betrayed...
...Deftly Miss Nelson demotes Aurelia's husband to an out-of-town office, adroitly she arranges dinner for the Greeleys at Mr. Cooper's home. There a fellow guest asks Mrs. Greeley whether she prefers Bach to Stravinsky. Her coy retort, "Isn't he the high-brow cutup, though?" echoes into ghastly silence. That night she admits to her husband that his rapid rise has not been...
...brow shall have another furrow...
...photographic supplies. Makers of soaps, shellacs, varnishes, polishes and lacquers are alcohol-users, so are makers of fungicides, insecticides, deodorants and disinfectants. When alcohol in eau de Cologne is applied to an aching head, the alcohol evaporates rapidly, uses up the heat of the body and cools the fevered brow. When alcohol in a liniment is rubbed into the skin it dilates the blood vessels and relieves the twinges of lumbago, neuritis, "muscular rheumatism." Anhydrous alcohol (alcohol with all but 0.1% of its water removed) makes gasoline more potent, but at present gasoline is cheaper than alcohol and industrial alcohol...
...well as the quality of the parody has taken a fall indeed. The spontaneity of a Yale or Princeton issue, the "Evening Graphite" or the "Daily Prints-anything" fortunately intervenes occasionally to tide over the barrenness of the customary publication, but the laurels are fast fading upon the tortured brow of college journalism in this particular field of endeavour, and it may be said that its success will only follow in the footsteps of its comparative rarity...