Word: browed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went for $3. Followed a litter of glassware, vases, pitchers, jars, hot plates, which excited little interest. Then up came a famed old bookcase used by Calvin Coolidge at Amherst. "Who'll give me $50?" boomed Bean. "Five dollars," said a voice. It went for $33. Wiping his brow, Auctioneer Bean grumbled: "It's not an antique now, but heaven knows it will be someday...
...seven hills with a span of oxen. Repeating the same gesture, Benito Mussolini in full-dress uniform strode across a vast field to where a brand new tractor plow was standing near a crowd of spectators. First came a speech with clenched fists, outthrust jaw, harsh voice, sweating brow...
Piers, Lord Sparkenbroke, was a dazzling child with the mark of genius on his pallid brow. Because of an intense experience in his childhood, his poetic imagination took on a somewhat morbid tinge: he worshipped love, life and death as aspects of a trinity. This attitude, with his handsome face and title, made him a devastating lover but an unsatisfactory husband. While his adoring wile and son lived for his infrequent visits home, Sparkenbroke loved, suffered and wrote in his villa in Italy, with his valet, a kind of super-Jeeves, as his only steady companion. Though apparently he wrote...
Carpenters, painters, plasterers were making an unholy din in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art last week. With deeply furrowed brow, Director Alfred H. Barr Jr. had retired to his office and was scowling at an unproductive typewriter. Scattered about the floors were strange objects of wood, rusted iron, marble, plate glass, polished brass. All of them were heavy and a great many of them were extremely large. With 150 paintings, they made up the largest exhibition of abstract art New York has yet seen...
...same towering white shako that pressed so heavily on his throbbing brow during the funeral of George V (TIME, Feb. 3), buck-toothed King Carol II of Rumania in Paris reviewed France's Garde Républicaine. Later in a more comfortable cap, he received from France's oldest living Marshal Franchet D'Espérey, France's highest military decoration, the yellow and green Médaille Militaire, awarded only to commanders of divisions -and to private soldiers who have won it under fire...