Word: brows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After this inner wrestling had come to its close, and the Packard brow had regained its natural serenity, he delivered himself of the following opinion, couched, as is apparent even to the casual reader, in weighty and legal verbiage...
These balmy spring days are not without their worries for the cop in his booth on Harvard Square. If you should ever happen to look at him around ten o'clock on Tuesdays, Thursdays, or Saturdays, you will see lines of worry and annoyance distorting his sturdy brow. True, is only the appearance of a litte brown Ford on the horizon which disturbs his poise; but in it is Professor Ballantine on his way to a class...
...John) Scott, who married into Sir Walter's clan and spent half her time riding over the countryside looking for antiques. Lady Scott wrote the music for "Annie Laurie," first popularized by the British soldiers at Sebastopol. She edited the poem thoroughly, made the second stanza read: Her brow is like the snowdrift, Her neck is like the swan, Her face it is the fairest That e'er the sun shone on. . . . Willie Douglas' version: She's backit like the peacock, She's briestit like the swan; She's jimp about the middle...
...America of Washington, Lincoln, et al. would have to be destroyed. None had said that they sought to introduce a U. S. Soviet by "thwarting our then evident recovery." The tissue of the story sagged still further when Dr. Wirt, the glare of Klieg lights pitilessly burnishing his baldish brow, confessed that he had "done a great deal of talking." He also appeared to have been the one who broached the party's radical sentiments, quoting at great length from a three-year-old speech of Rexford Tugwell's to which, he said he apprehensively noticed, the others...
Leaning back in his chair on the sunny veranda of his mansion in Virginia whence he flies to Washington at frequent, intervals to confer with the President, General Mitchell took off his campaign hat and mopped his brow. "The trouble with aircraft companies in this country," he resumed, "is that they compete in terms of dollars and not of airplanes. If we had gone at it right, we could have airplanzed the world just as we motorized it. But now the European nations have achieved a big lead over us. The army Air Force is in terrible condition: they have...