Word: foreheads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sinclair Lewis: "Pinkish, redhead, hair smooth and flattened in front, neglected, dishevelled and bunched in brief strands behind. Irritable brow. Long flat plane from temple to collar. Flesh like canned tomatoes with the seeds in it, changing abruptly to cream-colored forehead. Pale blue clever bulgy eyes, glaring dizzily at something in offing, possibly anthill. Sandy eyelashes, invisible eyebrows, lips gathered on a drawstring with puzzled purse like old lady's reticule. Nose of a grocer adding up slip. Freckled hands with an elegant shape, sensitively caressing cigarette. Face wiggles formlessly into collar, long seamy neck to rear. Gold rimmed...
...front in the police pilot car. Since any street down which His Majesty is to ride must first be swept, purified and sanded, to make a wrong turn might seem impossible. Suddenly Sergeant Honda's heart was in his throat, his eyes bulged and sweat poured from his forehead. His pilot car had made a wrong turn. He was leading the Divine Emperor down a street unswept, unsanded, and unguarded! As horrified courtiers later reported, "'The surprised spectators were not even fittingly garbed...
...rabbis and 800 Orthodox Jews crammed New York's oldest synagog, little Beth Hamidrash Hagodol on the East Side. The issur, which the rabbis had voted to "declare, pronounce, issue and publish," was read aloud by venerable Rabbi Israel Dusovitz. Beshawled and wearing phylacteries* strapped to his forehead, the rabbi parted a pair of curtains to reveal the Ark of the Covenant and the Scrolls of the Law which are shown to Jews only on the most solemn occasions. Holding aloft the issur, he invoked the blessing of God, exclaimed: "The issur is now in force...
...guard suddenly became aware of one Joe Fatigate, 25, habitual brawler, at the far end of the hall. From Joe Fatigate's forehead projected the bone handle of a penitentiary table knife. The 4-in. blade of the knife was neatly buried within the man's brain...
Today, at 45, U. S. Citizen Sikorsky is once again as famed as he was in Russia 20 years ago. Shy, gentle, absentminded. he lives in Longhill, Conn, with his wife and three children, usually covers his high bald forehead with an old greasy checkered...