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Word: eyebrowed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Announcement of another conference usually elicits no more than a wearily lifted eyebrow. Too often the undergraduate has been seduced by an intriguing title, only to hear discussion die in windy generalities. Except for notes in a dusty file, nothing is left...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE | 4/12/1940 | See Source »

Considering the fact that General Trujillo's local record has not always been regarded as that of a humanitarian, many a refugee official raised a skeptical eyebrow when the Benefactor first offered to take the refugees in. But the contract he agreed to was a model of liberality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Smiling Plot | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

...murder mystery, flip cigarets into the blue Gulf waters-perhaps smile at the revival of the 1939 rumor* that he would meet heads of European Governments in midocean, there settle the world's hash. Last week he could have killed the rumor with a wink or a lifted eyebrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Deep Waters | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

...very nervous and very worried--somehow or other he knew that he'd never look well amid the mysterious implements of a boudoir table. Eau de Cologne bothered him, and eyebrow pencil embarrassed him with its frank fraudulence. And yet there he was destined to lie-surrounded by the rouge pots and the powder puffs. It was a sad fate, but it was inevitable, and Vag believed with Confucius that the inevitable must be accepted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/21/1940 | See Source »

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