Word: foreheaded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Appearance. He is slightly under six feet in height, of a heavy, compact build, with enormously broad shoulders. His face is full and oval, his jaw " one of the squarest and most determined in the United States," with a friendly, boyish and disarming smile. His forehead is high and broad. He has a great shock of brown hair reminiscent of Bryan in his youth. He is described as " a cross between William Jennings Bryan and James J. Jeffries...
...poet, with his curious rythms sprung from Negro and Indian sources, with his slang and his brassy effects, he has, I believe, reached the heart of the American people. If you have never heard Sandburg sing folk songs of America, bending over his guitar, white locks down over his forehead, dreaming of hoboes by a fire under some abandoned freight car, you have missed an experience that is comparable to none that I know...
...Music. Not only is their aim a very pretty one, but it is splendidly carried out by their conductor, Arthur Bodanzky. This musician, who also directs the orchestra at the Metropolitan Opera House, is distinctly a great personality. Tall and gaunt, with the characteristic long face and high forehead of a musician, he is a bundle of nervous energy and fire. He is by temperament a scholar, even an austere scholar, whose greatest devotion is unearthing gems out of the dust and debris of music. As an example: He is giving a year's work to the orchestration...
...first onslaught, the Navy dropped out for $100,000,000, claim- ing they could not cut a cent. Agriculture promptly followed by dropping out for their $25,000,000 announced in the Secretary's letter. Beads of perspiration formed on my forehead, and I regret to say profane ejaculations characterized by vocabulary. Secretary Mellon, who joined me at the office, joined also in the perspiration, though naturally a cool man." In spite of Navy and Agriculture, Dawes finally found $305,000,000 to save...
...states that in the "Contemporary Civilization" course, taken by all freshmen at Columbia, a "prepared instrument" for testing achievement was successfully employed. Does this mean that some day we shall be satisfying the requirements in English by reciting a given number of lines from Shakespeare with calipers across our forehead, a thermometer in our mouths, and a stopwatch in our hands...