Word: browed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shortly after breakfast one morning last week. Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes bustled into the White House office with jaw set, brow beetling. He had had a most disturbing experience at the breakfast table: his morning paper had announced that Federal Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins was going to cut the New Deal's newest, biggest and most expensive cake, the $4,880,000,000 Work Relief Bill. What did that announcement mean? the irate Cabinet officer demanded of sleepy-eyed Presidential Secretary Early. Had the President gone back on his promise that he, Harold Ickes...
Perhaps this very straight-forward, sound shallowness will save them from the fate of many efforts at high-brow education over the radio. One cannot educate fifty million people in time to prevent the deluge. Even college graduates, moreover, have been known not to understand the complications of the present economic situation. So a league of crusaders, fighting the obvious demagoguery which now abounds, appealing to American horse-sense, may be just the right weapon in the word-fight of the depression...
...grinned. Meantime another 100 words of collect message had come through on the first machine. Soon 400 words had been clicked out. The editor's brow clouded: Was this an expensive practical joke? He sat down again and asked: TUCSON, ARIZ. ARE YOU SURE COLLECT MESSAGE IS SENT BY EX-PRESIDENT HOOVER? Click, Click, Click. The machine responded: SENT BY HOOVER IN PERSON. The editor shrugged. About that time, at the end of 600 words, the original message ended. Cost to the United Press...
...colitis but sinus is now the most fashionable physical complaint. Likewise Surrealism is the latest rash on the high brow of Art. Even experts are puzzled by its cockeyed symptoms, cannot give a straightforward diagnosis; while laymen, confronted by the nightmare inconsequence of such surrealist pictures as Salvador Dali's (TIME, Nov. 26), are amused, bewildered or alarmed. But surrealism has its uses. In I Am Your Brother Author Marlowe has made it work for him, shows through this feverish medium a story distorted into real horror. One reason why such gruesome tales as Dracula are still traditional...
...mashed human skeleton. Dr. Jenks called its one-time owner "Browns Valley Man," put his age at 12,000 years. He was 25 to 40 years old when he perished, had a short face and long skull like the Cro-Magnon man of Europe's Stone Age, jutting brow ridges, a wide jaw and wide skull base...