Word: eyebrowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that his daughter Miss Chemical Dudding, conceived by injecting into Mrs. Dudding's veins a serum made from the leaves and sap of a cherry tree, would be born Nov. 15 (TIME, Oct. 30): an announcement by Ex-convict Dudding addressed to "my friends, interested and curious watchers, eyebrow lifters, I-told-you-so nonbelievers, and whatnot," stating that Miss Chemical Dudding would be stillborn. ''Now our prospective chemical baby sleeps in death. We are consoled by the thought that there is no fault on our part. We did all we could and lost...
...mutiny of enlisted men on the Hood! Everyone remembered that the September mutiny two years ago broke out while the Atlantic fleet was stationed near Invergordon, a few miles from Nigg (TIME, Sept. 28, 1931). Stiffly Sir Bolton Eyres-Mon-sell, First Lord of the Admiralty, arched his right eyebrow a little higher with a denial. He said that certain maneuvers in the North Sea whither the Hood was bound had been postponed because of "heavy gales." At the Admiralty offices in London, the duty officer in command refused to make a statement of any kind for three whole days...
TIME'S source for the time to Tahoe was the Automobile Club of America, toward which a raised eyebrow for not keeping up with swift California...
...John Barrymore's performance makes Topaze one of the most ingratiating comedies of the past year, as it is certainly the most cynical. Good shot: the Barrymore eyebrow's working above a handkerchief which conceals his mouth when Topaze has just downed his first cocktail, including the olive, in one gulp...
...physical strength who was actively engaged in Banyuls' third most important industry, smuggling. Smuggler Maillol was successful enough to indulge his grandson's taste for art, though young Aristide Maillol's first medium was one that must have caused many an old smuggler to raise an eyebrow. He designed tapestries...