Word: frowningly
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...read the newly popular works of the renegade Defoe, they started the novel off with a reputation from which it has barely recovered. During the eighteenth century especially it fared evilly among the colonists of the New World; in fact the stern-eyed Puritans were wont to frown upon it as the very text book of the devil himself. Even Thomas Jefferson, though a Virginian and a liberal democrat, felt called upon to declare that "a great obstacle to good education is the inordinate passion prevalent for novels and the time lost in that reading which should be instructively employed...
...ships in 1775, but for the principle of the thing a man was socially ostrcized if he drank it. There is a principle of the thing today that ought soon to take its place so that such a socially influential body as the Associated Harvard Clubs will at least frown upon it. Yours very truly H. H. NOYES...
...that "as documents of human interest . . . they are more truthful in their revelation of personality than is the modern development. . . . Nor did the pioneer photographer neglect a fine appreciation for spacing and composition in the arrangement of his subject on the plate." "The elusive half smile, half frown of the posed groups" was traced to "the awkward time* required for the photographic process...
...Surgeons for-bone-setting without a degree; his string of cures being nullified in their eyes by the lack of a string of Latin words after his name. He believes he can score over them by healing this crippled daughter of his chief antagonist; she consents, despite a parental frown which cannot straighten her limbs...
...Crown Prince seems to frown upon politics. "The Prince," it was reported, "only goes deer hunting occasionally; and if he goes to Breslau he returns to Oels as quietly as he came. This makes the chances of the Crown Prince very poor indeed...