Word: browed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drive for books by the American Merchant Marine Library Association is one that neither calls for disappearance nor, on being caught, the donation of "as much as you think you can afford, for this most worthy cause" The Association asks for books,--old, new, good, bad, or high-brow. Anything seems to please them so long as it has a cover and a printed interior...
...government of 'civilized' New York, most prosperous state in the Union, welcomes him, provides a commision to take care of him and regulate the crowds. And, under government protection, he is permitted to commit assault and battery, knocking a man unconscious while a low-brow crowd howls its delight...
...shivers and trained their opera glasses immediately upon him. For it is a characteristic of all readers that they would rather see an author than read another of his books. They would give ten times the price of his complete works to know that he parts his left eye-brow in the middle. What reader does not find new zest in the works of James Branch Cabell, after learning that that urbane satir ist does most of his writing at night, is proud of his distinguished ancestry, and boasts a highly protective spouse? Or in those of Joseph Hergesheimer after...
...turned loose again, they might give some idea of the pace of Go-Go. No white chorus ever went quite so fast before. There is a blare of trombones, a rattle of traps, a shriek of voices. For a while the audience holds its hand to its fevered brow, blinks agitatedly a few times, watches a few scenes fly by, shudders at a few clearly indicated jokes, and then it all seems to be over. The pace is terrifying...
Crown a Viking brow and a broken soul...