Word: eyebrowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hardly an eyebrow flickered when the Senate Appropriations Committee last week voted its approval of the House's $56 billion appropriation for the armed forces in fiscal 1952. But when the Senators also voted to shove another $5 billion into the hands of Defense Secretary Marshall for what was described only as "additional air power," they threw the capital into a tailspin of speculation...
...year-old stage number that was long too hot for Europe got its U.S. premiere in Manhattan last week, and hardly anybody raised an eyebrow. The work: a nightmarish ballet fantasy entitled The Miraculous Mandarin, set to the 1919 music of Hungarian Bela Bartok. Its main characters: a prostitute and a Chinese mandarin whose love for her is stronger than death...
...incomparable Len Hutton-"White Rose Wonder" and "Pride of Pudsey"-a Surrey cricketer? . . . After such a howler I should scarcely raise an eyebrow were you to assert that Joe DiMaggio plays for the Boston...
...businessmen who raise an eyebrow at his scattershot method of picking winners and his acceptance of scholarship contributions, Hartman answers: "The awards have no commercial end. I should actually be subsidized by manufacturers...
...defensive, fatalistic attitude is to be much lamented as Dr. Faustus laments the sale and riddance of his soul for likewise by debunking the critic, theatre has lost the means of viewing herself to her mind's eye and must henceforth don the powder and greasepaint, the eyebrow and wig less the aid of the mirror and the important light that reflects therein. And so in the darkness of ignorance under the illusion of being in the light, without a critical past, without a discriminating present, without the dynamic of channeled volition working from someplace to somewhere. American theatre stumbles...