Word: frowned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...governments- have "renounced war as an instrument of national policy" (TIME, July 30; Sept. 3, 1928). Last week the Court's bench was happily packed in the pact's favor by electing to it Frank Billings Kellogg himself. Well may naughty nations come to dread the twitching frown of this small, wizened Galahad of Peace. Election was by the Assembly and Council of the League of Nations,† sitting separately and secretly last week in Swiss Geneva (see col. 2). Of 51 assembly ballots cast by as many nations, League tellers threw out four as "defective and void...
...Undset's scene is medieval (14th Century) Norway, her people medieval Norse Christians violent in action, grim of conscience. In this instalment old Hero Olav has withered into the sere & yellow, but he is still master in his own house, who can save himself much speech by an occasional frown. Unconfessed sins have darkened Olav's mind. His dead wife's bastard son. Eirick, is a living reminder of the murder of his wife's betrayer. Eirick, son avenger of the title, never learns the secret of his birth, but he and his supposed father are continually running foul...
...principals are F. Gardner Clough, Hervey White & friends v. Woodstock's Respectables (local residents who are not artists, who frown on Art). Chief enemy of the Respectables is Clough, for though White was founder of the colony and instigator of the Maverick Festival, Clough's press and marital activities have drawn most venom from churchgoing Woodstock merchants. He is editor of the Woodstock bulletin, a journal of Woodstock's art votaries,? therefore chief spokesman and defender of the colonists against "the hypocritical piety of Christians." When, at the 1929 Maverick an anonymous fiat from a "Committee of Fifty" warned...
...dash from his pew in pursuit. But Sir Colin's ceremonial sword caught in the pew, delaying him, and it was a spry messenger who overtook Beckett, took the Mace from him, handed it to Sir Colin when he arrived. Sir Corin then, with measured tread and awesome frown, marched back with Cromwell's "bauble," restored it to its place...
Royal Escape. Nervous Britons who frown upon the hardy diversions of their Prince of Wales were chilled last week by the crash of a Royal Air Force plane which had just carried the Prince from Khartum to Cairo, on his way home from South Africa. A flying officer and an aircraftsman (pilot and copilot) were killed. Shocked, Edward of Wales was not unnerved. Well aware of the flying tradition that prescribes the "army cure"* he announced he was impatient to get home and wanted his personal pilot to pick him up at Marseilles. British airmen applauded. Pilot and an escort...