Word: browing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...listeners, has to slow down. (And deaf-mutes talk much faster with their fingers than other people talk with their tongues.) To preach a sermon vocally and sign it at the same time is like preaching in two languages. Sign language is literal: "man" is touching the brow (man tipping hat); "woman" is touching the chin (woman tying bonnet strings). It has no syntax, consists of isolated words which the deaf piece together to make sense. "Man, working, tall, house, fall" means "A man working on the roof of a tall house fell...
Have you ever felt, after a long summer drought, the sweet, cool, delicious droplets of the first rain? It's happened Wednesday as 457 little droplets of femininity landed in Wellesley College to start their freshman year. After that comes the heavy downpour, like nectar on the sweated brow. That happens today as Wellesley's upperclass nectarines register for the fall term...
...announcement of Frankie's appearance in the Hollywood Bowl had thrown Los Angeles high-brow music lovers into a self-righteous williwaw, Sinatra's fans at Pasadena, where he got off the train, into a squealing ecstasy (see cut). But Frankie's Los Angeles symphonic debut was like the calm after the storm...
...sergeant, his face a mass of weariness, came up the hill at the head of G company. The colonel quickly called him: "Get here quickly. Go over there to the left, contact H and F company and look out for the left flank." The sergeant went over the brow of the hill. Only four or five soldiers were close behind him. Somewhere below, the rest of the column was struggling upward with painful slowness...
...just one simoleon everyone may dance the fever bug right off of his brow. It may be your last chance to dance to a civilized orchestra, your next will probably have a major drum section. Place that dollar in the hands of the nearest Morale officer and plan to attend the Senior dance July 24th. Those who attended the last one will tell you that dancing plays a minor role in the evening...