Word: frown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Beneath the frown of Dictator-Premier Benito Mussolini one Fascist after another arose to find only words of praise upon his tongue: "A great step forward . . . Fascist unity of Labor, Capital and the State ... a death blow to the Marxian theory of class struggle...
...Frown...
Fortune apparently has begun to frown on the rebel chieftain Abd-el-Krim. A fortnight ago TIME, Aug. 24) the Spaniards and the French drove back his western front. Last week the French drove back his southern front. All through the Taza sector the Riffs were driven back and the French in three days claimed the recovery of all the territory Abd-el-Krim had taken in three months...
...been in perfect accord fighting at the front. After the War, the accord was continued until the latter stepped out and seized Fiume. After that, when he had become the hero of Fiume, he retired to Gardone. and has never since left it. From his mountain stronghold, he has frowned upon Fascism, or has been thought to frown. Nobody really knows. Not even a principality cleared the situation. At one moment, he appears solidly against Fascism, at another indifferent. The meeting between the great pair was therefore not unreasonably taken to mean that d'Annunzio had smiled upon Fascism...
From earliest times the eclipse has been an occasion of awe and wonder. Savages used to abase themselves before the frown of God, and a religious ritual is still celebrated by Mohammedans on these days. Civilized man smiles at primitive superstition, and yet he is not different from his ancestor, for he still feels within himself the same quiver of respect. But with it is mingled a vast pride in man-made science which charts out and predicts even the minutest movements of the planets. The scientist, on this day, receives the full meed of popular awe before his divination...