Word: eyebrow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Searl deserves the credit. A brat whose thin, disdainful, pasty face has made him villain in so many films that he has been called the Boris Karloff of his generation, he acts with his customary blood curdling restraint. When Bill Peck returns after running away, Horace merely cocks one eyebrow and says "You back?" He does it so offensively that audiences cheer when Bill Peck blacks his eyes...
...reporters, an ambitious fellow he must be, although ambition is strictly against newspaper tradition, broke a story that caused more than one raised eyebrow and more than one blush on the part of Yale officials. It seems that this noble fellow was travelling one Sabbath afternoon, not so long ago along the road that leads by Gales Ferry. Whether he was out on assignment or wandering back from his Saturday night off, no one knows, but we shall give him the benefit of the doubt...
...University of Pittsburgh's Chancellor John Gabbert Bowman let it be known that Professor Turner's liberal activities had nothing to do with the case. Said Chancellor Bowman: "I merely thought his position here could be better filled by another man." But the nation raised a doubtful eyebrow. Too many facts fitted too neatly into a contrary pattern. In 1921 hardfisted, go-getting Chancellor Bowman had a vision. He would dramatize and thus revive his huge,* down-at-heels University by giving it the tallest academic building in the world. For 13 years he has thought, dreamed, talked...
...York, when through a ruse she has a chance to make a hit. Menjou tries to spoil the play by "mugging." His wife deserts him for a young playwright. Menjou disappears, grows nobly poor and seedy. Wobbling between comedy and sentiment, The Great Flirtation is a raised eyebrow, uncertain and unalluring. Typical shot: the last, in which Menjou and Landi both act brave lies, the worst one winning...
Within a few years the Antarctic was producing about 70% of the world's oil. Whalers have always cocked a dour eyebrow at the hullabaloo the world makes over explorers. Time & again they have gone to the rescue of an explorer in regions where they had been plying their regular trade for years. When Admiral Byrd went into the Ross Sea in 1929, when the ice was so thick that relatively few whaling expeditions bucked the pack, he found no less than 32 vessels at work. The Ross Sea whaling fleet is composed of big factory ships, each mothering...