Word: brows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...symbols of our age is the mass of mediocrity upon whose brow the laurels are placed, whose voices are heard in the high places. In every field hasty, dishonest, and superficial criticism flourishes, and as the inevitable consequence, equally faulty and unmerited praise. The arts are the gravest sufferers in this respect, as the apathy of the public leads them to accept supinely, as Olympian, the judgments of the numerous committees founded to ferret but and annually reward the best work done. Chief among these, and the one whose decisions carry the most weight with the people, is the Pulitzer...
Manifesto on which the La Follette Progressive Party proposed to unite was summarized in five points which called for: 1) public "ownership and control of money and credit"; 2) restoring "to every American the absolute right to earn his living by the sweat of his brow"; 3) granting "the Executive branch power to get things done . . . with ample guarantees against . . . abuse of such power"; 4) security for "those who work on the farm and in the city . . . measured by ... contribution"; 5) no more "coddling or spoon-feeding . . . restore to every American the opportunity to help himself. After that...
...engines provided aviation with a shortcut, proved Leonardo partly wrong. But at the same time man did study the air, developed four types of motorless flying: gliding (coasting downward on still air); slope soaring (on rising air currents along the shoulder of a hill); cold front soaring (on the brow of a thunderhead); and thermal soaring (on rising currents of air in the open). So specialized are these techniques that a skillful soarer looks upon power flyers with the same superiority that a sailboat skipper feels towards a motor-boater...
...Chillicothe's Little Theatre. Farmer Smart believes that the land should be socialized. His farm deficit he makes up by clipping coupons ("much less pleasant than shoveling dung"). But in common with plain farmers he wants to make his farm pay by the sweat of his own brow...
...hard and uncompromising not so much because of his thundering orations as because of the fact that Marie is so tender and generous in comparison. We know that he was ambitious, determined, and belligerent, not so much because he marches to and fro with his jaw protruding and his brow wrinkled in a perpetual scowl, as because Marie is by comparison so very peace-loving and kind. Mr. Boyer is the star because it is the character of Napoleon which is the center of interest; but it is the acting of Miss Garbo which makes the film memorable...