Word: gloweringly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scholars contemplate and glower...
...serve as an interim White House while Calvin Coolidge waited for Warren Harding's widow to vacate the executive mansion two blocks away. Lincoln lived at the Willard with his family before the 1861 inauguration. U. S. Grant would shamble over in the evening to smoke cigars and glower from the armchair set aside for him in a dimly lit corner of the lobby...
...finances, futures and foulups. His father, who prefers bridge and gin rummy, has moved up to the largely honorary job of chairman, though he personally runs the pioneer division of the corporation that markets the Jonathan Logan juniors and roams through the showrooms to gloat over styles and glower at salesmen. "Now I'm 65," he says, "it gives me a place...
PRIMITIVE ARTISTS OF YUGOSLAVIA by Oto Bihalji-Merin. 200 pages. McGraw-Hill. $16.95. The impact of these native artists, most of them peasants, is almost unbearably and perhaps unwittingly sad. The skies glower. A hired man slumps by his ax, in utter fatigue or despair. In a village cafe, the dancers do not smile. An old woman nods by candlelight, her face pale as death. A gypsy wedding scene seethes with movement, but the movement is angry, and the arm of the old man in the foreground seems to be raised in menace, his mouth seems to bellow wrath. Although...
...normal, healthy, 20th century girl-and that, though his nibs doesn't know it, means trouble. Drawing an unfathomable sigh. Don Juan exposes the poor young thing to his invincible romantic glower. She looks at him curiously, as though he were one of her mother's old beaux. "Kiss me." he murmurs torridly. She readily complies, suffers no evident reaction, coolly informs him: "You're the 37th. I want to kiss 50 men before I get married.'' Smugly, she assures him that she is in love with her fiancé. Has Don Juan never been...