Word: browed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then there were the town-gown riots with Cambridge's vociferous councilman, Mickey Sullivan, violently protecting the rights of the poor boys from the town, and the Yard Cops protecting the poor College boys. Meanwhile sex was everywhere, with many a cool summer-school hand smoothing the fevered brow of the returning student warrior...
...Hawaii last winter, in charge of entertaining the troops, went Broadway's most high-brow actor, Captain Maurice (Hamlet, Macbeth) Evans. In Hawaii this spring he is offering the Army's most low-brow show, a bawdy, corny musical called Hey, Mac, that the dogfaces are eating...
...exception has been Union Pacific's bald, blunt, bull-built William M. Jeffers. As rubber czar, he memorized the Baruch report, especially the passage saying that "the program should be bulled through." Operating day & night on a devil-take-the-hindmost policy, "Bull Bill" Jeffers has butted his brow through so many walls, bellowed down so many other czars that he finally got a super-duper WPB priority overriding most other priorities...
Steinberg feels that the U.S. has no really good humorous magazine, thinks The New Yorker too high-brow for the whole nation. His own brand of humor appeals to brows of all shapes. Enlisting in the U.S. Navy in January of this year, he received a commission the following month. Today Steinberg is in Washington, waiting to be shipped overseas...
Slowly, with great dignity, handsome Governor Don Sanchez shook his brown head. The sun glinted from his high cheek bones, from his jet-black hair, from the strip of magenta silk around his brow. He stood firm. The engineers went away...