Word: browing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Muscat, important British port at the entrance of the Persian Gulf, His Highness Seyyid Sir Taimur ben Feisal celebrated the end of Ramadan by wiping his brow, praising Allah, announcing his decision to abdicate. The Sultan of Muscat differs from most rulers in his feelings for the land of his birth. He hates the place. Muscat is the world's hottest city, with an average annual rainfall of only 3½ inches, frequent temperatures of 189 degrees in the sun. The Sultan spends most of his time in India, which he finds like Bar Harbor by comparison...
Beside herself with all this talk of marriage, King Carol's red-haired mistress Magda Lupescu renounced the Jewish faith, announced that she would qualify herself to become Queen of Rumania. Grey-bearded Premier Nicholas Jorga wiped his tired brow...
...White House, where Premier & daughter made their initial call at once. Host Hoover in the Blue Room was so eager to plunge into business with Guest Laval that an aide had to wrinkle his brow and beckon to the President. Thus reminded of Mrs. Hoover's existence in the Red Room, the President led the Lavals thither, presented them...
...NATIONAL IDOL. By 1918 his fan mail (actual) was enormous. 'Would it be terribly unprofessional to send him this letter so he can know that a Virginia lassie has fallen for his clear honest eyes, his fine brow and tender mouth? Tell him I am 19 and unattached and awfully interested.' That was a typical plea-of thousands...
Scarface Snorkey had grown glummer & glummer, angrier & angrier. He scowled at Carpenter Ryder, whispered with his lawyers, mopped his brow. The jury had waked up, was following the testimony with wide-eyed interest. Leaving the courtroom one day Snorkey and his bodyguard, Philip D'Andrea, brushed aside Federal Judge Walter C. Lindley to get into an elevator. Two days later D'Andrea was arrested, searched in the corridor by Secret Service men before gaping policemen, charged with carrying a concealed weapon (.38 calibre revolver). D'Andrea showed a badge reading "Deputy Bailiff of the Municipal Court," was told...