Word: browed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...often that a champion learns the fickleness of public fancy while the crown still rests upon his brow. Gene Tunney, the first fighter to attract attention to pugilism from the intelligentsia of the country, whoever they are, has seen the laurel turn to poison ivy. The very people who had been won by his admiration of Carlyle, who yelled "Awake, arise!" into their loudspeakers during the seventh round, have turned upon...
...journal followed the article with a letter to Artist Jerdano-witsch, requesting a short biography, a picture. Novelist Smith obliged. He let his beard grow Conrad length, posed before the camera with tortured brow, eyes popping with Muscovite anguish, his esthetically agonized face pressed against gentle fingers. He explained he was born in Moscow, came to the U. S. at the age of 10 with his parents, settled in Chicago, suffered from tuberculosis, sought health in the South Sea Islands, retreated into Southern California...
...aims of his Republican group: government vested solely in the Irish people; association with full Dominion status with the states of the British Commonwealth of Nations; recognition of "His Britannic Majesty" as the head of the association. This, said Mr. de Valera will bring the "Republic to the brow of the precipice." His proposals were refused, however. They meant, in effect, a separate sovereignty for Ireland instead of recognizing the common citizenship of the Commonwealth. Such conditions were not acceptable to the London government...
...call upon you, as our new High Chief, to take up their leadership ... to protect and help the weak."- To cap the ceremony, Rosebud Robe (soon to appear in vaudeville as "the most beautiful Indian maiden in the world") placed upon White Chief & Protector Coolidge's brow a war bonnet of 200 feathers. Nineteen of the warriors who had helped kill General Custer's men on June 25, 1876, cheered vigorously...
...with great sacrifice and stern decision?our great and beloved king has closed forever his eyes, which never ceased to contain unlimited affection. Under his leadership you have conquered, you have forged the national unity of all Rumanians, and with laurels gathered on the battlefields, you have crowned his brow and your...