Word: scowlingly
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First came the three leading members of the Defense Committee? Gardner Jackson, Aldino Felicani, Mary Donovan. Each kissed the brows of the dead. An uncountable crowd, pushed and prodded into line by police, shuffled stuffily after to scowl, weep or gape. Miss Donovan was arrested when she tried to insert an anti-Judge Thayer placard among the funeral flowers. She was later sentenced to a year in jail, appealed the case. Artist William Gropper of the New Masses was not admitted when he came to make bier portraits...
Interviewed on the subject of his remarkable rise. Patrolman Terhune had the following to say. "I attribute my recent elevation on the force to persistent attention to duty and in no small part to taking no back talk from motorists. I stand up here and scowl at 'em and the best of 'em go by in silence." Just then he became aware of violent horn tooting, and blowing his whistle released the jam which had developed during the conversation. Amid stately sweeps of the hand the cars sped past leaving the isolated bluecoat marooned on his roost...
Occasionally he would invite newly employed sailors to drink with him. As they raised their mugs of rum he whacked them in the midriff. In winter, he would scowl upon the shivering beggars...
Self-sequestered Thibet, with 2,000,000 souls, has only one motor vehicle, a motor cycle, for its stamping, prayer-whirling priests to scowl...
...decently written, they perhaps poured out their coffee or lit a cigaret, before their eyes again returned to the page. But the first sentence of General Rogers' obituary made them gasp and hold the paper closer; the second and third sentences made them cry out with laughter or scowl with well-bred disapproval, according to their temperaments. For the article under the headline began as follows...