Word: eyebrowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such was the probable basis of last week's titanic paper war. At reports of far-flung air battles engaging several hundred planes, the skeptical New York Herald Tribune cocked an editorial eyebrow, suggested that the Japanese had drunk too much native sorghum whisky and mistook Lake Bor bustards for Soviet bombers. The only alternative conclusions were: "Either the units of the Japanese Kwantung Army . . . have developed a talent for fiction ... or they are engaged in an undeclared war with the Soviet Union on a scale that deserves a more sophisticated audience than the local nomads and their herds...
...list of its salaries submitted to SEC, A. G. & E. recorded paying one Ben Grey $55,000 for eleven months' work in 1937. Promptly SEC raised an astonished eyebrow. Who, it asked was this mysterious person and what service had he performed for A. G. & E. to earn such a fat fee? Last week A. G. & E. Vice President Fred F. Burroughs appeared unhappily before SEC to explain. Fidgeting, he told SEC Lawyer Lewis Dabney that Ben Grey was a short man with a blond mustache whose job had been "to mix with the right people" in Washington...
...insult to the intelligence of those taking them, and more generally to the undergraduate body as a whole. Quantitatively, this is a tiny problem, an unimportant abuse. But in principle, it means that credits can be procured where they are not deserved, by the mere beckoning of an eyebrow. Thus, "snap" courses reflect upon the standards of Harvard education in general...
...bursting into a Fragonard boudoir as Brünnhilde on a white horse, or playing a world-weary actress with only energy enough to scoop up gifts of jewelry with both hands, or wandering around a Siberian railway station disguised as a spy, Lillie had only to cock an eyebrow to cause a commotion, drop a muff to start a riot. The world's coolest and most custom-tailored crackpot, she was never, in her satire, more unerring, implacable, uproarious...
...embryologists has been a theory that the marsupial mother tucks her newborn into the pouch with her lips. When, at various times, scientists reported cases of kangaroo and opossum babies crawling up their mothers' inclined bodies into the incubating pouches by themselves, most of their colleagues raised an eyebrow. The fetuses, they said, were too immature for such mountaineering...