Word: gloweringly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...intend to make a bigger noise than ever ... I believe in the free use of an unbridled tongue. I am glad I have one." Earlier in the week, he had proved it still wagged without rein. Looking like a ferocious teddy-bear, he interrupted a Mozart concert to glower at his Glyndebourne audience, tell them to stop stomping out the beat. Said he: "I feel this is a prerogative which in this instance must be left to me." A few days later, he showed the Liverpool Philharmonic musicians the way to play Mozart (a way few critics quarrel with...
...best tracks, known to horsemen as "the big apple," where rich stables race for prestige as well as profits, not nearly so many horses are "pulled" as the glower ing fans suspect. And if Eddie Arcaro is glowered at more than anybody, it is really a backhanded compliment: fans can't understand how he can lose. Arcaro tries to be philosophical about the booing: "I guess they're entitled to beef if they want to. They're losing their money...
...three months, as the Government has struggled in the deepening morass of Britain's troubles, Winston Churchill has thrived on the confusion of his Laborite adversaries. His temper has shortened, his glower deepened and his oratory come to full flower again. He no longer talks about turning over his captaincy to a younger man. Some optimistic Conservatives have brightened; perhaps, after all, there is an immediate future for the Tory Party...
...Resistance work. At first he was just barked at by his superiors or kept cooling his heels in the dirty waiting room filled with dated copies of the Daily Express and France Libre. But if he was not on time, he was barked at louder: "Handsome Mrs. Pollock would glower at me from behind her flower-and-chocolate-laden desk, and her pneumatic Jane, the American secretary in uniform, would pretend to be engrossed in her typing, so that she could spare no sympathy." A major warned him: "Please be careful, my friend. You must not give a false impression...
...success of Mr. Willkie's book has been tremendous, to put it mildly. Within a month after publication, the successive printings of the book have topped one million copies, and "One World" at present heads all lists of non-fiction, surely a record to cause all other publishers to glower greenly at the Publishers S. As one critic put it, the vogue of the book lies in the fact that Willkie decided to write it himself, instead of employing a "ghost" writer. Mr. Willkie writes easily; he has a journalist's eye for the significant details of a situation...