Word: browing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...peacetime, the U.S. had always been intimately conscious of the big man in the seersucker suit, grinning around his up-tilted cigaret holder, mopping his brow with a heavy, mole-speckled hand. Now the nation saw him not at all. It could piece his doings together only through an occasional secondhand glimpse such as at Harry Hopkins' wedding last week...
Pageants were enormously popular. In Philadelphia Charles Willson Peale whipped up a magnificent triumphal Peace Arch in 1783, groaning with symbols. It was to be illuminated by skyrockets and 1,000 candles, but it caught fire. Undaunted, Peale invented "an ingenious mechanism" for dropping a laurel wreath on the brow of George Washington, who had to put up with that sort of thing wherever he went. The launching of the Constitution was staged "with marine background scenery bordering on the marvelous, with a final climactic picture of Niagara Falls." In Americana and Elutheria Benjamin Franklin stepped out of lightning-forked...
...Hitler has had his fat nose streamlined by a plastic surgeon. He has had himself painted with a halo around his brow. For the benefit of posterity he has had his head measured by scientists, who prepared a 130-page report; he has willed that after death his brain shall be dissected...
...manuscripts or copy. As new statistical data comes in, he has the printer make the changes right in the type, which is still set up from the last printing (first of two previous editions was in 1939) a method long used by telephone companies Worry furrows the Fahey brow only when a new edition nears press time, because not so much as a postage stamp of space must go bare, and he must fill in from memory all the spaces under the pictures and around the figures. The assorted facts tailored to fit these spaces spellbind Navy buffs and pros...
Douglas workers were startled when the Tokio Kid first appeared, but soon adopted him. About a dozen posters since Pearl Harbor have shown him with teeth and claws growing progressively longer and sharper, a brow becoming more apelike, ears more pointed. A worm crawling out of a huge front tooth was eliminated, after one try, as a little too gruesome...