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Word: foreheads (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stupid from the brilliant. Two photographs they observed in particular. From one smirked a dull, stupid face with drooping lips and averted, timid eyes. Surely, said most of the examiners, this man must be a moron. In the other was a man with a straight glance, a high forehead, a pleasant expression. Here, said the examiners, was kin of genius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fortunes in Faces | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

Hyman Biller (alias Gill Biller), 42, 5 ft. 4 in., 140 lb., brown eyes, scar on left forehead, wanted for the murder of Arnold Rothstein last year (TIME, Dec. 24). A gambler and bookmakers' cashier, Biller frequents race tracks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Badly Wanted' | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...stranger it burned and glared, and guarded all avenues of approach. Startled it was like the eye of a wild animal, and penetrating. "peering through the portals of the brain like the brass cannon." Over it crouched bushy brows, and all around the great head bristled white hair, on forehead, cheeks, and lips, so that little flesh remained visible, and the life was settled in two fiery spots. This concentration of expression in the few elementary features of shape, hair, and eyes made the head a magnificent subject for painting. Rembrandt should have painted it. William Hunt would have done...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Idiosyncracies of Professor Sophocles, Famous Harvard Scholar, of Last Century Narrated by Professor Palmer | 5/14/1929 | See Source »

Mile. Falconetti's face is sunburned and her lips are shrunken and seem dry; thin lines mark her forehead, her rough hair, cut short, fits her head like a wooden cap. She is ugly, but her eyes are beautiful, and as her thought makes changes in her face she too becomes beautiful. At first, she seems paralyzed with amazement and terror; later, from some unexplained emotion, she weeps", and through the trial big tears run down her tanned face. Her answers in the subtitles are the same that were given by the real Joan according to the record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Apr. 8, 1929 | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

Knowing this, and angered by the Senate Chamber's emptiness, Senator Reed darkly hinted that he would filibuster. This news brought a frown to the tired forehead of the Senate's other Reed? slim, stooping young David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania, protégé of Andrew Mellon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Tombstone | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

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