Word: browses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Napoleon, at the Pyramids, thrust one hand over his diaphragm, thickened his neck, beetled his brows, said: "Men, from the summits of these Pyramids 40 centuries look down upon you."
Baldwin. CHARACTER: "Here is a plain, blunt, simple-hearted countryman. . . . For good or for evil, his personality entirely lacks the flick of a cocktail. He is genuine cider. The small pinched-up eyes, with their uplifted brows, have the shrewdness of the shepherd rather than the sharpness of the merchant...
Friend W. Richardson of Californias "As he talks, especially as he becomes interested in one of his favorite topics?economy, for instance?he looks out at you from under extraordinarily heavy eyebrows, and his eyes snap and his brows twitch. He buries superficial crudities under a river of picturesque language...
"Ah, let the sweet birds of the Lord With earth's waters make accord: The Muses' sacred grove be wet With the red dew of Olivet, And Sappho lay her burning brows In white Cecilia's lap of snows!"
"The average worker is convinced that the Church exists largely for the white-collared people. They regard it somewhat as a comfortable social club for merchants and bankers, Rotarians and members of the Chamber of Commerce ... I have a recollection that somewhere in the New Testament it says that when...