Word: browed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proclamation, and Denver's Mayor Quigg Newton called for "a pilgrimage in spirit to the Mount of the Holy Cross." On the City Hall carillon, Faith of Our Fathers and other suitable anthems were played. The Rocky Mountain News wrote: "The hand of the Creator wrinkled the brow of this majestic peak in a symmetrical cruciform that cradles the ice and snow of ages . . ." An apologetic mountaineer heard the bells, read the paper, and called the News to say that something had been overlooked. The left arm cross has been crumbling away from slides and erosion. Four years...
...McCarthy listened intently to Reber's testimony, twin furrows appeared on the Senator's brow. Nervously he took notes, pausing from time to time to give ear to the excited whispers of his committee counsel, Roy Cohn, who is also accused by the Army of seeking.favors for Private Schine. Counsel Jenkins leaned close to the microphone, the corners of his cavernous mouth turned down, his Tennessee drawl booming throughout the room. He worked entirely without notes...
...Malone, North Dakota's Langer and Maryland's Butler) joined Democrats in a 46-43 vote to package the two statehood proposals. Senate Majority Leader William Knowland, who had failed to hold his Republican colleagues together for the Eisenhower Administration's Hawaii bill, furrowed his brow deeper than ever and said he would support the package. But almost everyone admitted that this Congress is not likely to pass any statehood bill...
...London: James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Actually, his work recalls another American artist whose successes in England were even greater than Whistler's: John Singer Sargent. John learned from both and came to paint personalities just as brilliantly, charmingly, and revealingly as his masters had. Delineating the mind-heavy brow of G. B. Shaw (opposite), John's brush is icicle-sharp. Gliding across the bosom of the Marchesa Casati (overleaf), it turns feather-soft. He naturally places his technique at the service of his subject matter, and this instinct, which most modern painters scorn, is the first essential...
...years she ran France's distinguished quarterly Commerce, and her home in Paris, like the palace in Rome, was a gathering place for writers. Her distant cousin, T. S. Eliot, warned her not to start Botteghe, told her it was tough enough to back a high brow magazine in one language, let alone three...