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...pile of papers, which turned out to be pardons, was for the press. But when the reporters began to dig into ticklish subjects, F.D.R. could be chilly, huffy or schoolmasterish. Once he told them: "Now mind you, it is not important for the people to know whether my left eyebrow is raised or whether my tone of voice is angry-you better cut that out." But from his continued gibes at the "bright boys" of the press it is clear that they went on writing pretty much as they pleased...
...first period lead and protected it through the second period. But midway in the opening stanza Huntington accidentally landed hard in a scramble for the puck and broke his nose. And in the second period an Army high stick gave Abbott a deep vein cut under the eyebrow...
...Order. This week, like a diligent lawyer checking up on the fine-print clauses, Maclean's magazine stepped in to warn the landlord that the new tenant was not all he seemed to be. Maclean's Ottawa editor, Blair Fraser, wrote an eyebrow-lifting article entitled "Where the Yanks Rule a Part of Canada." He charged that U.S. legal privileges in Newfoundland were out of line, and that Newfoundlanders had no real protection of law against the U.S. forces. Fraser cited examples...
...cocked eyebrow, a smirk, even a suggestive pause in speech can make the censorious heart skip a beat. In Chicago, NBC's Bill Ray complained: "You just can't trust nightclub funnymen. They've been pulling objectionable stuff so long, it's a habit they can't break." Old movies, which have become a TV mainstay, are also a TV headache. Made before the days of the Hays Office, such old films as The Sheik and The Son of the Sheik have a straightforward approach in their love scenes that shocks televiewers raised on tidied...
When confronted with this explanation of her tribal name, the Medical School's woodchuck cooked an eyebrow and, after a moment of meditation, commented, "Probably apocryphal...