Word: eyebrows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Berlin, Harry Truman caused many an eyebrow to be raised when he declared: "There is not one piece of territory . . . that we want out of this war." Last week, in his address to the nation, the President backtracked. He made it clear that he was not talking about military bases "necessary for the complete protection of our interests and of world peace." The U.S., he said, will have "bases which our military experts deem to be essential...
Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E Minor (Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting; Columbia, 10 sides). Pedantic Brahms would raise an eyebrow at Ormandy's changes of tempo, but he would find it pretty good music just the same. Performance and recording: good...
Hardly an eyebrow lifted when in Manhattan last week a dust-filled, muscular, melodramatic painting was knocked down for that fancy price. The painting: A Dash for Timber, by Frederic Remington, No. 1 painter-illustrator of the old Wild West, fast friend of Teddy Roosevelt. Was $23,000 high...
...tried to enter the same elevator and was blocked by a line of photographers. A U.S. Army captain pushed a photographer aside, and Smuts eased in. Molotov, painfully embarrassed, bobbed a greeting to Smuts. One of the hard-faced Russian guards peered at Smuts's insignia, twitched an eyebrow at another guard whose expression seemed to say: "How would I know...
...Palace Hotel would have fresh California fruit in its rooms each day; the Mark Hopkins sternly warned its bellhops not to raise an eyebrow at foreign customs. It also cautioned them that some guests might not even tip them...