Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brows he determined by beginning at the inside corner of the eyesocket and following around the upper edge of the bone; the fullness of the lips by the protrusions and recessions of the upper and lower teeth...
...Yale-man of 1911, he found, "is a lawyer in New York, with an office downtown, and a house above the Grand Central on a side street east of Fifth Avenue. He is a Republican and an Episcopalian." His Princeton counterpart is 46, "in business with an office in lower Manhattan, lives in Montclair, N. J., has two children. He has seen every Yale game since the War." As stanchly Republican as their Harvard contemporaries, Yale and Princeton men will support Landon 80% and 92%, respectively...
...still Morris on corporation statements but he is generally Maurice on social occasions) lives on Sheridan Road. Every morning his Duesenberg calls for him and after stopping to pick up Brother Nathan, who lives nearby, they drive to their luxuriously paneled, air-cooled offices in the Goldblatt warehouse, on lower Lincoln Avenue. Thither from their slightly less pretentious bachelors' apartment come younger Brothers Louis and Joseph in a Lincoln. The Goldblatt family is scrupulously graded by seniority. Maurice and Nathan as "the partners" draw top salaries of $25,000 each, but Maurice, as senior by a year, long held...
...they are unfortunate enough to peruse a copy of TIME. Such a calamity would react upon your paper in that "news" might become scarce over night. On the other hand, picture the handicaps I might be forced to labor under, in any plans to destroy Wall Street: to lower the value of Florida real estate by a bombing raid and alas, worst blow of all, to deprive the Hearst publications and the fair State of California of the chance to shout "We told you so!" Fair play, mates...
...never before fused into a program that made sense or symmetry. With The People, Yes, he comes close to doing so, and the book narrowly misses a place with the best of U. S. poetry. Written with a deceptive informality, packed with native phrases and examples of fresh, unstudied, lower-class humor, it succeeds in making "the people" a hero worth a poet's tribute...