Word: glower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Corps technical adviser. As luck would have it his ship docked on the night of the newspaper photographers' annual ball and the ball was at a standstill while cameramen fumed on the dock for an hour and a half until Lindbergh, his face frozen in the glum glower into which it falls when he sees a news camera, showed himself. The photographers were naturally resentful, but Lindbergh did not know about the ball, did not know the ship had docked because he was talking to his friend, Dr. Carrel...
...sports a straw-colored beard, a closely-cropped skull. Out of the ring, his .favorite pastime is to parade down Broadway, dressed in a gold-braided Cossack tunic with cartridge belt, boots, an astrakhan hat. In the ring, his customary procedure is to stroke his beard pensively, glower at spectators. His favorite hold is the Russian Bear Hug, nothing more than an earnest attempt to squeeze the living daylights out of his opponent. Last week Wrestler Kalmikoff, an ardent Communist, took his $25,000 earnings, shaved his beard, sailed back to Russia...
...GLOWER...
...things becloud the future of these companies: 1) sales resistance to machine-made homes, 2) opposition from organized labor. The powerful building trades' unions glower darkly at houses that can be put up with fewer plasterers, carpenters, roofers, painters and plumbers. Probable result: prefabricated houses will be pushed and developed from outside the building trades by big electrical corporations, plumbing, steel, cement, and wallboard companies who see a fat, new market for their wares...
...merged with R. J. Reynolds (Camels). After Yale (1915) and the War (Navy), "Johnny" Hanes went north to Wall Street. He is largely responsible for the fact that Chas. D. Barney & Co. today is regarded the leading authority on tobacco stocks. A big Reynolds' stockholder, he is reputed to glower terrifyingly at any office caller who dares pull out any other cigaret than Camels...