Word: browed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Approximately the same age and description as Java man (Pithecanthropus erectus) of low brow, apelike jaw and human teeth, whose skullcap and femur were first uncovered by Dutchman Eugene Dubois...
...been a figure in mythology which symbolizes tragic futility. That was Sisyphus, who, according to the Greek story, was given the task of rolling a great stone up to the top of a hill. Each time when, after great struggle and sweating, the stone was just at the brow of the hill, some evil force manifested itself and pushed the stone down. So poor Sisyphus had to start his task over again. I suspect that for the next 2,000 years the story of Sisyphus will be forgotten, when generation after generation is told the tragic story of the Austrian...
...stopped and remarked casually: "My father cut his throat," then went back to singing. Byron was word-perfect in his monster role before he was out of his teens. Henceforth, the clubfoot and the sensitive heart hid themselves in the disguise of a cold, cloven-hoofed devil. On his brow, at a moment's notice, would appear "that singular scowl" which caused one acquaintance to exclaim that he "had never seen a man with such a Cain-like mark on the forehead." A Pair of Stays. A Miss Elizabeth Pigot had the honor of discovering that Byron was addicted...
...wonders for the film. In future, this is the direction that wide films should take. Carved decorations in the awkward borders, for one thing, would relieve actors of projecting emotion. Henceforth, when a pretty young friend of some producer wants to register anger, instead of furrowing her generally marble brow, she need only point, with languid grandeur, toward the appropriate mask. Her charm need not be destroyed by the necessity of acting. This could mean great things for the future of television...
...Sophie, Diderot's great love. "Ah," he rhapsodized, "what a woman! How tender she is, how sweet, honest, delicate, sensible!" But she was hardly a beauty. At 38, she was well past the first blush of youth. Nevertheless he wrote her lovingly: "My dear, I kiss your brow, your eyes, and your dried-up little face...