Word: eyebrowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...DcMille films, the people are caricatures, the production lavish, and the crowd scenes awe-inspiring. Gary Cooper is the strong silent moral colonial, who raises not a single eyebrow when alone in the woods with Paulette Goddard. She is intensely feminine, idealistic, and a perfect complement for Cooper. Opposing them are completely villainous Howard Da Silva, and evil inscrutable Indian chief Boris Karloff. DcMille has chosen an Indian war of 1761 as the setting of "Unconquered" and has duly costumed hundreds of extras as colonials. British redcoats, and painted aborigines. Fearless colonial Gary Cooper twice frees beautiful bondslave Paulette Goddard...
...raised an eyebrow to the Manifesto or the troubadours, but even bootblacks joined the crowd listening with rhapsody to a rendition of Eliot's "Fragment of an Agon...
When a rare substitution did occur, the CRIMSON noted it in its account of the game with thinly-veiled surprise. In the story on the previously mentioned Princeton game, the daily lifts a collegiate eyebrow to say, "Price was worn out and requested Harvard to let his brother take his place. This was done and Channing started to run." Family ties were also important in those days...
...Delegate Herschel Vespasian Johnson read to fellow delegates the statement all parties had been waiting for. It brought instant reassurance to Zionists, anger to Arabs. Said Johnson: "The U.S. delegation supports . . . the majority plan [of the U.N. Palestine Commission] which provides for partition and immigration." Johnson cocked a mild eyebrow at Arab threats of force. He blandly added: "We assume there will be Charter observance...
...Angeles, Mr. & Mrs. Albert J. Anderson were nearing the end of their treasure hunt (among other items they must collect: a Winston Churchill cigar butt, one hair from Jack Benny's toupee, another from John L. Lewis' eyebrow, a salt cellar from Senator Pepper, a shilling from Sir Harry Lauder, a copy of the Missouri Waltz, autographed by President Truman and Senator Taft, one of Herbert Hoover's collars). If they bring in everything to NBC's Truth or Consequences next week, the Andersons will collect a washing machine, a man's wardrobe, a diamond...