Word: browing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...final count it appeared that there would be over 20,000,000 votes for Willkie and most of them were undoubtedly votes against Roosevelt. Besides a great victory Roosevelt also had the greatest vote of no confidence that any President ever received. On Franklin Roosevelt's brow rested something heavier than the laurels of political victory: on his big bland forehead lay a responsibility greater than any President's since Abraham Lincoln. Like Lincoln, he could and must quote Scripture: "A house divided against itself cannot stand...
...problems which furrow the brow of patient Secretary of State Cordell Hull is what to do about official Nazi representatives in the U. S. The activities of two underlings have been so brazen that he has had to boot them out.* But Mr. Hull has to be careful when he kicks, lest he break the already taut cord of diplomatic relations with Hitler. U. S. representatives would then in turn be booted out of Germany, and the U. S. be deprived of one of its few remaining listening posts in Europe. The zeal of the Dies Committee has not made...
...Hull brow took a deeper furrow last week. In big black type the New York Post said Dies Committee evidence showed that Friedhelm Drager, German Vice Consul in New York, is the head of a vast Nazi propaganda and espionage machine operating in the U. S. Deep and dark as an Oppenheim thriller was the story which the Post spread across its pages...
...ends." Editorialized London's Express: "All skeins of diplomacy, all military feats, panics, rumors, sorties and full assaults recede into their proper perspective behind the one dominant figure of this war. This figure is the British workingman, his arms bared, his muscles flexed, and the sweat upon his brow...
...fired from the paper. Next he tried his hand at the Purple Parrot, Northwestern's comic sheet, turned out a parody American Mercury, with a story about prostitutes, that resulted in the Parrot's suppression. As his farewell to collegiate belles-lettres, Walliser took over the high-brow Scrawl, had that suppressed when he tried to build up circulation with an article attacking marriage...