Word: brows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nothing brings such a thunderous frown to the dark brow of Josef Stalin as reports from the farm front that food production is lagging. Promptly agents of his Gay-Pay-Oo pounce (usually at night) on peasant laggards, ship them off from their ancestral farms to saw wood and split rocks in bleak Siberia. All last year food shortage gripped the Soviet Union, peasant deportations continued, prophesies flew that a peasant "passive strike" might crack the Stalin regime...
...want something for nothing . . ." ''For nothing?" Waving aside all opinion as to woman's spiritual companionship and other vague attributes, there still remains in fact as opposed to theory that one thing which woman alone can contribute. . . . Let the M. Bernheim wipe the perspiration from his brow. and reconsider...
Charles Edwin Mitchell, onetime head of National City Bank, wearing a short black coat, grey striped trousers, handkerchief in breast pocket, his granite jaw set, his fierce eyes peering intently from beneath his big brow crowned with a stiff brush of upstanding grey hair, was on trial for alleged evasion of income taxes: 1) in 1929 by making a fictitious sale of 18,300 shares of National City stock to his wife to establish a loss of $2,872,000, thereby avoiding a tax of $728,000; 2) in 1930 by making a fictitious sale to William D. Thornton, president...
...work among the Russian masses, but the Russian climate was too much for his bad lung; he went back to Capri and still lives there. But when he visits Russia (as in 1928 for the opening of the Gorki Museum) crowds cheer him. Tall, gaunt, droopy-mustached, with wrinkled brow and a spreading peasant's nose, Gorki's bass voice rumbles kindly tolerance. He has put all his bitterness in his name...
...often has a British Ambassador had to take such backtalk. Next day the Ovey hat went back on the Ovey head and with knotted brow Sir Esmond, hastily summoned to London, drove to the railway station. Quickly the young men in his Embassy announced that this was not an official recall; unofficially they let it be known that it was unlikely Sir Esmond would return to Moscow. In the smoky station was gathered the entire foreign diplomatic corps (but not Commissar Litvinov or his British wife, Ivy Low) to bid Sir Esmond and his wife Godspeed. As the train pulled...