Word: brows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week referring to the fact that the President had made some use of four out of five of the Thomas inflation methods (unused: authority to issue $3,000,000,000 of greenbacks), the Senator graciously bestowed a wreath on his own brow in saying: "I am in accord with everything President Roosevelt has done under the Thomas amendment...
...less slaughterous (Red Harvest had at least a dozen murders), The Thin Man is easily the U. S. murder story of the past year, adds one more proof to Author Hammett's title of No. 1 Crime-story Writer of the U. S. Hammett fans, of varying brow-heights, unite in admiring his hardboiled, naturalistic narrative and dialog. Some of them will feel, however, that for once Hammett's naturalism has taken him too far, when Nick's wife asks her husband a question rarely, if ever, seen in print...
...Industrial Regulation Bill." As administrator of the Wartime Draft General Johnson had enjoyed publicity aplenty, but since then he had been out of sight in the news. After June 16, when the Recovery Act was signed, Man of the Year Johnson's scowl his broad mouth and furrowed brow his pithy epithets, the daily state of his health and temper, made acres of newspictures, miles of news copy every 24 hours. He was not the Administrator of NRA He was NRA. In plotting their common course through the last six months of 1933, future historians will mark well these...
...eyes. Last fortnight the Journal of the American Medical Association reported 17 such victims of the latest U. S. beauty fad, one of them facing total blindness. First city in the land to act was New York. Last week its Health Department banned the manufacture, sale and use of brow & lash dyes containing aniline derivatives or metallic salts...
...Charge!" was Mr. Faraday's next order and his mounted and foot police, using only their truncheons, tried to club into submission 8,000 gibbering, shrieking Arabs who attacked with knives and brickbats, dragged policemen from their horses which stampeded whinnying and brought a puckered frown to the brow of District Commissioner Crosbie who watched from a window overlooking the melee in Jaffa's main square...