Word: frowningly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...days ago, in a meet at Leavenworth, Wash., he soared 273 ft., longest jump ever recorded in North American competition. Then he flew back to New York to compete three days later in the Franklin D. Roosevelt Cup meet at Bear Mountain, his first and favorite hill. Most Norwegians frown on skyscraping ski jumps built for headlines rather than for sport-like that at Garmisch-Partenkirchen in the Bavarian Alps, where jumpers have leaped 300 ft. The Bear Mountain ski jump is just a sporting little hill, constructed for jumps no longer than...
...Holland, Luxembourg and France, the attack on Finland, the absorption of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Albania and Rumania. So it was when Secretary of State Cordell Hull warned Japan, when Holland and France fell, and when The Netherlands East Indies and Indo-China were endangered, that the U. S. would frown upon any change in the status quo in the Pacific...
Since 1907, successive Acts of Parliament have cut Archbishop Parker's prohibitions from 30 to 20. First to fall was No. 17, ended by the Deceased Wife's Sister Marriage Act. But the Church of England held fast, continued to frown on a woman who married her brother's daughter's husband or a man who married his wife's father's sister. Though these three marriages and seven others of their ilk are now legally permissible in England, many a clergyman has refused to perform them, has solemnly shown the Parker table...
There are no WPA artists in Mystic and Willkie-buttoned painters frown on the New Deal for fostering a group which leads the public to believe that modern art is radical. Mystic boosters think the sun, the sea, fresh air and green trees would get a WPA city artist back to "picture principles," away from propaganda, but would hate to see him transplanted at the taxpayers' expense. They know about expense - have an annual $2,400 mortgage fee to pay on their $35,000 gallery...
...inspiring sight. But add to this eyesore 235 play-hungry kids, a brigade of willing undergraduates, and a dash of cooperation from the City of Cambridge. Result: a recipe for civic improvement. A dash of cooperation? None is forthcoming. The local Park Board has contributed only an official frown...