Word: frowningly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tito's face has changed too: his features, once deeply gullied, have become smoother with well being. His permanent frown has become heavier; the permanent smile on his wide lips has become more cunning, and is now flanked by deeper furrows of cynicism. Even in his guerrilla days, Tito insisted on daily shaves and neat dress. Now, as Yugoslavia's first marshal, he gleefully indulges his fancy for uniforms (his latest number: dress blues with four-inch red trouser stripes, gleaming ebony boots, visored cap with gold braid and a red star, immaculate white doeskin gloves). But sometimes...
...people look down their snobbish noses at the Warners. The brothers are widely regarded as inartistic penny-pinchers. Their detractors claim that the Warners never buy a story if they can remake an old one or snatch a plot out of the newspapers. They discourage fussy, expensive retakes. They frown on temperament in anyone but themselves. As President Harry once said: "Listen, a picture, all it is is an expensive dream. Well, it's just as easy to dream...
...Pompton Lakes, N.J., where Joe Louis trained, he played gin rummy like he fought-coolly, with a slight trace of a frown. He laughed, though, when he got a first-card knock: "Boy, you sure got to concentrate on this game. . . ." Joe didn't like to lose, even when he was playing...
...Kagawa's place is not unquestioned. Many Japanese Episcopalians and Catholics frown on what they consider his avid fondness for the limelight. Newly appointed to Japan's House of Peers, he is among those whose seating General MacArthur has ordered delayed, pending determination of their status as "desirable personnel." Headquarters rumor predicted last week that he would not be purged, despite an unfavorable report by SCAP's Civil Intelligence Section...
...practice, lately initiated in the official Catholic press in this country, of vilifying, in a most unworthy way, the Protestant Reformation and its great leaders, particularly Martin Luther and John Calvin. I plead with the distinguished scholars of the Roman Catholic Church in America that they frown upon every journalistic attempt to distort historical truth for ecclesiastical ends...