Word: eyebrowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...UNPOSSESSED - Tess Slesinger - Simon & Schuster ($2.50). Last week a new novelist burst, like a modern Pallas Athene, full-panoplied from the aching head of Uncle Sam. Critics who always lift an eyebrow at such new arrivals noted a few chinks in her armor, but to the gaping crowd of plain citizens she seemed indeed a well-armed lady. Her utterance was racier than classic, and the bird of wisdom on her shoulder looked more like a mockingbird than an owl. But she was obviously a messenger of the gods, and Publishers Simon & Schuster announced her as such. The Unpossessed...
...employes. Last spring a 10% wage cut brought ugly rioting at the Citroën plant in Paris, a lock-out and in the end a several-weeks' shutdown. A completely redesigned Citroën for 1934 entailed heavy retooling expenses and Jean Frenchman cocked a doubtful eyebrow at the new low-priced models. By last week Andre Citroën was desperate for cash. As the price of aid a group including the Bank of France and Credit Lyonnais lifted the sceptre from M. Citroën's well-manicured hands...
...Department of Agriculture's "chamber of horrors" last month Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt discovered two photographs, pressed them to her breast crying, "I cannot bear to look at them" (TIME, Nov. 20). The photographs were of a woman who had got some "Lash-Lure," an eyebrow & eyelash dye, in her eyes. Last fortnight the Journal of the American Medical Association reported 17 such victims of the latest U. S. beauty fad, one of them facing total blindness. First city in the land to act was New York. Last week its Health Department banned the manufacture, sale...
Announcing New York's ban. Health Commissioner Wynne thoughtfully reminded women & girls who insist on darkening their brows and lashes that they may still enjoy the harmless though perishable effects of eyebrow pencils or mascara...
...live in Decatur. You do look charming with that eyebrow up; but do be more tactful, regardless of whether you've heard of it or not. But it has about 16,000 people living in it--the town, I mean. Daddy's quite a respectable citizen, 'n we don't live on the river bank...