Word: browed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sinclair Lewis: "Pinkish, redhead, hair smooth and flattened in front, neglected, dishevelled and bunched in brief strands behind. Irritable brow. Long flat plane from temple to collar. Flesh like canned tomatoes with the seeds in it, changing abruptly to cream-colored forehead. Pale blue clever bulgy eyes, glaring dizzily at something in offing, possibly anthill. Sandy eyelashes, invisible eyebrows, lips gathered on a drawstring with puzzled purse like old lady's reticule. Nose of a grocer adding up slip. Freckled hands with an elegant shape, sensitively caressing cigarette. Face wiggles formlessly into collar, long seamy neck to rear. Gold rimmed...
...Economic Conference last year and going to Spain with three boon companions, Journalist Henry Major Tomlinson did not hesitate long. He went to Spain, with a backward skeptical sniff at the Conference's selfimportance. South to Cadiz is the record of his Spanish holiday, written in his familiar brow-wrinkled style, as if he had puffed it thoughtfully out of an old pipe stuffed with a shaggy mixture of Lamb, Stevenson and Conrad. A journalist to littérateurs, a littérateur to journalists, Author Tomlinson is pleasant company for plain readers who like to browse quietly...
...odious Duke of Northumberland, plotting to transfer the royal crown of England from a Tudor to a Dudley brow, cared nothing for charm or scholarship. He dragged Lady Jane from her bower, gave her in marriage to his son, Guildford Dudley, and confounded for the nonce all other aspirants for the throne. Lady Jane swooned prettily when she heard that the Council in its pliancy had named her Queen of England. Meanwhile London could hear the rumbling of the distant drum, as the Eastern counties rose for Tudor Mary, and Catholic troops moved towards the metropolis. While Ridley harangued...
...question of prices furrowed Secretary Wallace's brow as deeply as his concern over the half-a-hog vote among farmers. "There cannot be further increases in the percentage of the consumer's dollar that goes to the farmer as a result of reduction in supply," he significantly admitted. What he did not reveal was the fact that farm prices, as a result of drought and reduction, had risen to such a point that the whole Federal adjustment plan was being jeopardized...
...Washington, suave Donald Richberg stroked a soothing hand over the troubled brow of Business when he told the National Press Club that NRA was planning a return to the principle of "good old competition" in certain industries. From Boise, Idaho one of NRA's severest critics grumbled approval. "I assume when Richberg says price-fixing should end." said Senator Borah, "that he means it shall end. If so. the importance of his statement cannot well be overestimated. When you put an end to price-fixing, you have cut the jugular vein of monopoly...