Word: scowlingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such experimental painting, sculpture or architecture. The Nazi-approved paintings were technically excellent, detailed, naturalistic studies like Stepp Hilz's tired pin-up girl Vanity. Hitler's favorite sculptor, Arno Breker, had ground out dozens of gladiators whose muscles, wrote Kirstein,. "seem pushed to explosion, the brows scowl in furrows with sincere paranoiac delusion. But they are not impressive...
...action we reprove so much? . . . The word eccellenza is derived, if we are not mistaken, from . eccellere [to excel]. Doesn't Nenni excel as a politician? We want excellent governors, and we are willing to call them Eccellenza. . . . And now we hope that Your Excellency will not scowl...
WINDS, BLOW GENTLY - Ronald Kirkbridge- Fell ($2.50). A family of Pennsylvania Quakers move to South Carolina, where Father Jordan's neighbors grin at his "book farming," scowl at the high wages he pays his Negroes. Gay, charming, occasionally sexy tale of farm life with social overtones...
...Scowling and uncomfortable - as he has had reason to be since he gave the Brazilian press its freedom last fortnight-the longtime (4-year) dictator entered the room. As flashbulbs popped and movie cameras whirred, the well-publicized Vargas grin erased the scowl. Vargas, in answer to persistent queries, 1) said elections would be held "soon", 2) evaded saying whether he would be a candidate by hinting at the possibility of a "serene and tranquil" third name acceptable to all, 3) guaranteed that "freedom of the press [but not necessarily of radio] will be wholly maintained," 4) asserted that Soviet...
Kingpin. Kenesaw Mountain Landis almost always wore a scowl, never pulled a punch. When he became the $42,500-a-year kingpin of organized baseball in 1920, the game reeked of the Black Sox scandal. He promptly decreed that the eight Chicago players involved, although acquitted by a civil court, be barred from the game for life. From that solid beginning, he ruled supreme...