Word: browing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little, erect man in a dark suit coming on stage after the show was already on the air. He led with an economy of gesture; only occasionally did he indulge in vigorous sweeping motions. But at the end Toscanini was obviously exhausted: he kept patting his brow with a scented handkerchief as he made his exit through the violin section...
...Finest in the East," members of the University Band decided yesterday, was their own sobriquet, and not to be extended, even by implication to the malt liquor brow manufactured by the Crofts Ale Company...
Ecdysiast Georgia Sothern managed to stay out of the hospital, but just barely. She reported for work at Boston's famed, faded Old Howard with a bunged-up brow, a bruised caboose, and a shocking tale. On the street the night before, said she, three strange men "appeared out of nowhere" and gave her a working-over. "So you would go to a nightclub?" cried one, and belted her in the forehead. (She had not been to any nightclubs, said red-haired Miss Sothern.) The other two walloped her on the crown, booted her from behind, chucked her into...
Wedding in Weehawken. In 1934 white-maned Walter Damrosch visited St. Louis to guest-conduct the annual German singing societies Sängerjest, and was outraged to learn that a local soprano had been signed as one of the soloists. After a rehearsal of the Liebestod he mopped his brow excitedly,, kissed Traubel and said: "My dear, I brought...
...just out ape-like on the brow...