Word: brows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Winner Henigan went special honors. On his brow Captain George Demeter of Boston, Grand Governor of the Greek-American Progressive Association, placed a laurel wreath made of laurel from the plain of Marathon, Greece. To him was awarded in addition to the usual diamond studded medal, another medal, inscribed with the word "Nενκηκaμεν," the famed dying cry of Pheidippides, who bore the news of the Battle of Marathon to Athens. Like many marathoners, Henigan, 39, has outraced his own youth. He has been a long distance runner for 20 years...
...racketeer-businessman is seduced from his comfortable wife by his unattractive but spiritual secretary, wishes when it is too late that he had not fallen for that high-brow stuff...
...Author. Thomas Stanley Matthews, 30, has a chin that sticks out from under a nose, eye and brow that might have belonged to St. Paul, patron saint of his preparatory school (Concord, N. H.). Whittling little verses hard as black walnuts is an old pastime of his. Once he wrote...
Charlie Chaplin does not choose to speak. A conservative at heart, despite his caperings, the first comedian of the screen has made his latest picture after the mute manner. One by one the advocates of silent acting have been coaxed by producers or brow-beaten by public taste into becoming articulate. The result has been trying. No longer need a person who lisps or has a major impediment in their speech worry about a vocation. They can now go into pictures. And if the infirmament is noticeable enough they are often whisked to stardom...
...came over the telegraph from the convention hall in Chicago. I read it to a great crowd of citizens who stood on the street below-on Newspaper Row-Fourth Street between Nicollet and First. When he grew grass in the streets of the cities and bore down upon the brow of labor his Cross of Gold I was more excited than I ever have been at a football game. I nearly fell into the street from the window sill. Later I traveled with him while he campaigned through some of the western states and you can take it from...