Word: browed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is nothing really good in the April Spectator, not even the quips. Walter Winchell launches a first low-brow article among the high-brows. There is a poorly written, poorly thought-out article on Freudianism before Freud. Cabell uses more new words for us than ever in another soliloquy. But most of the items are by names unfamiliar, and one of them "Low Down" by Charles Angoff, is the most disingenuous attack on the best sellers in the last few years which has ever been published. It all sounds very jealous and stupid, and aggravates by getting...
...Zbyszko's reviler was not the American's sports page, but the Sunday supplement American Weekly. One Sunday four years ago it presented a double-page feature headlined "How Science Proves Its Theory of Evolution." Dominating the spread was a huge picture of a gorilla with sloping brow, massive chest, treelike arms and legs. Alongside the gorilla was a picture of Stanislaus Zbyszko in wrestling stance, showing his sloping brow, massive chest, etc., etc. Read the caption: "Stanislaus Zbyszko, the Wrestler, Not Fundamentally Different from the Gorilla in Physique...
Behind the horn-rimmed spectacles and tousled head lies there a cooler mind, a more capable brain than reposes beneath the nobler brow of these who have gone before? Certainly those unfortunate head-holders who are loaded down with overhead in belt buckles and monogrammed suspender buttons can testify that the men of '38 are utterly impervious to even the most provocative of inducements...
...school of hard-boiled irony, white hope of intelligentsiacs who pride themselves on not being softies, has built himself into that rare phenomenon of a popular author who is spoken well of by the critics. His last novel, A Farewell to Arms, received both Hollywood and high-brow huzzas. His latest book, not aimed at so wide an audience, may alienate many of his new disciples, but it is a genuinely Hemingway production. Death in the Afternoon is all about bullfighting: a complete, compendious, appreciative guide. If you have never seen a bullfight Death in the Afternoon may not turn...
Grandmother Zetkin mopped her brow, wiped her slightly drooling lips (a gesture she frequently repeated) and took big gulps of water. She seemed barely able to lift and ring the Speaker's bell...