Word: browed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...instant the brow of the Prime Minister was stern, beetled, then he seemed to remember a very good jest, beamed, chuckled, "No, no, M. Bergery. You asked me to be your second-your best man-at your first marriage. I refused you then. I still refuse...
...question, and not looking up): "What d'you th-" (Then, stammering, as he sees by whom he is addressed) :"I . . . . I mean . . . . I am laying a kerbstone." Exalted Personage (preparing to canter urbanely away): "A kerbstone? Ah, a useful improvement." Laborer Rowlands (wiping cold sweat from his brow, as the hoofbeats recede): "Lor! 'Is Majesty...
...fact that Professor Murdock is giving a lecture on "The American Short Story since 1870" this morning at 10 o'clock in Harvard 1, at which the Vagabond expects to be present. For even if Poe is his favorite, he likes to wipe the cold sweat off his brow every now and then and enjoy the tales of O. Henry, Richard Harding Davis, and many others whom Professor Murdock will probably cover...
...know your Friend and other complexes as you of course should you will eat this play alive Sometimes, the reviewer being more or less innocent of such matters, thought that he was being privileged to listen to dialogue which was somewhat over his rather low brow, but this perhaps is to be expected from the pen of the Pulitzer Prize winner, the author of "They Knew What They Wanted" and "Ned MeCobb's Daughter...
...faint shudder ran through the ranks of the unenlightened when the Reading Period would be repeated in the high and far off times when Seniors would be wearing gowns and Yard concerts were the vogue for Brattle Street. But a whisper followed and as it ran, smoothed the ruffled brow and calmed the palpitating hand. For the Reading Period would come in May, and in May Radcliffe would come again to Harvard. All was well; though reading assignment and thesis pluck at the heart of the courageous, yet even when the trial was hottest they would gain sweet respite...