Word: browing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the tenacious problems that furrow a Harvard executive's brow-tenure, housing, food, to mention only a few-could be solved speedily by a single, simple means: more money. Funds are lacking here, funds are lacking there, until it is fairly evident that the rich man among America's universities knows that pinch of scarcity far better than many suspect. The fact is that with its enormous endowment of $146,000,000, Harvard is financially pressed. It grows poorer at a rate that justifies that gravest fears for its future. It is threatened with eventual starvation...
...white-haired, senatorial Walter Damrosch went to St. Louis to conduct a Saengerjest held by St. Louis' song-loving German-Americans. Billed as soloist on his program was a tall, buxom, blonde St. Louis soprano named Helen Traubel. When he heard her sing he excitedly mopped his brow, advised her to apply for a job at Manhattan's Metropolitan. In 1937, when Conductor Damrosch's opera The Man without a Country was premiered during the Metropolitan's minor-league spring season, Helen Traubel sang its leading role, and springtime critics gave her top marks...
...Consequently I have been impressed from the first by that general nobility of character and godlike quality that shines from Mr. Garner's countenance. The eyes are large, candid and idealistic; the mouth generous and honest to a fault; the nose shows strength and yet fair-mindedness; the brow is high and intellectual; the chin full of courage and loyalty to his leaders. All in all, this face of Mr. Garner's symbolizes all the nobility of the American eagle, that gentle unpredatory bird. I think it is most fitting that after 1940 that countenance should stand forth...