Word: forehead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many a paunchy, jowly citizen of U.S. suburbia, when he thinks of his youth, remembers Alice Prin. For Alice, with the heavy purple rouge over the surrealist green powder, Alice, with the bright crimson cupid bow hiding her thin upper lip and the spit curl embellishing her low forehead, was the toast (to put it delicately) of Paris in the days when Expatria infested the Left Bank...
...Customs, Lieut. Commander R. G. Lowry, R.N., writes as follows: A neckerchief usually of black silk was worn around the neck, and was sometimes used so as to protect the coat from the pigtail, but its real use was as a sweat rag worn around the neck or forehead; it was generally black in colour because this showed the dirt least. The black silk was in general use some years before Nelson's death; it may have been worn as mourning for him following the precedent of the ship's company of the Berwick who, in 1794, went...
...Seven thousand packinghouse workers-breadwinners for 35,000-are on strike. Chimneys that usually belch clouds of smoke emit only a weak little puff now & then. The resounding thud of a sledge on an animal's forehead is missing. No blood runs on killing floors. The lonesome watchmen make their rounds in silence. To leeward there is no smell...
When Red Mike gets excited, the veins invariably stand out on his forehead. Last week his face looked like a relief map of the Balkans. What brought on his near-apoplexy was a proposal by New York's Board of Transportation to sell back to Consolidated Edison, a private utility, three power plants which the city had bought in 1940. Explained the board: the power plants, which serve municipal subways, need such costly repairs that the city could save money by buying power from the utility...
Then Sergeant Baldassare put a cigar in his mouth, pushed his overseas cap back off his sunburned forehead and walked out with the air of a man who has just paid an old debt...