Word: eyebrowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Catholic may go about in nearly every part of this country without encountering so much as a lifted eyebrow, even if perchance he be a priest and wear a Roman collar. But if he wants an argument, one is to be had anywhere . . . and he will then learn that the church to which he belongs is an object of fear, suspicion, resentment, and more or less abrasive jocosity...
...another. Father Griffin, balding and in his late 503, is not out of Clarence Day, but out of a manual on corporate management. To him, his children are irresponsible junior executives who must submit periodic balance sheets on their behavior. "What have we here?" he asks in his raised-eyebrow voice when the accounts are out of line. Mother Griffin has a large, solid body, but her brain is the stuff pillows are made of. Her life is one long strategic retreat. Two Griffin children dominate the story. Dick, the novel's narrator, is an unself-confident 16, torn...
...Eyebrows & Aluminum. Though McGinnis does not have much elbow room on the board of directors, he does not need much. Smooth, sharp-witted and a proven good railroader, he knows the business from roundhouse to board room. The son of a New York Central foreman, he learned to specialize in railroad securities, now bosses his own Wall Street firm, commuting by ferry from a sprawling, century-old mansion on Staten Island, overlooking New York Harbor. Railroaders rate him as a top authority on financing, call his book (Guide to Railroad Reorganization) the best in the field. Sometimes he operates with...
...stroked his left eyebrow with his forefinger. 'I don't see why,' he said...
...like a chef over a hot stove. Guitarist Tal Farlow, who had gazed vaguely into space as he played, began to take an interest in the way his fingers rambled up & down the fingerboard. Clarinetist Shaw began to interpolate light-hearted musical comments on his own flights-the raised eyebrow of a grace note, the shrugging arpeggio, the delayed take, the impudent echo. His glum face relaxed into smiles, and the crowd began to hear the new Artie Shaw...