Word: eyebrows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...being broadcast. On the stage last week Soprano Maria Jeritza, making her farewell appearance of the season, sang the gracious Elizabeth who pleads for the erring Tannhauser. Backstage in her dressing-room her godson, one Jonathan Rinehart, 2, became involved with her make-up boxes, completely daubed himself with eyebrow-pencil, lipstick, rouge. After the performance, when Signor & Signora Gatti-Cazzaza and many another person came to congratulate her, Maria Jeritza made each and every one shake hands with 'little Jonathan Rinehart...
...This indifference is the outgrowth of several things,--tradition, Eastern conservatism, and the ever increasing pressure of modern life. Freshmen come to Harvard full of pep, and ready for anything and everything, but within a few months the enthusiasm of these same Freshmen has been replaced by the arched eyebrow, and the indifferent look...
Across one eyebrow ran a scar. Booth's eyebrow was scarred as the result of a false thrust in a stage duel...
When a slangster cocks an eyebrow and rasps "Oh, yeah?" some people feel faintly bilious. But when a pundit uttered the phrase last week at the Milwaukee meeting of the National Council of Teachers of English, he stirred his hearers to academic enthusiasm. The "yea" in the Bible, said Supervisor of English Max John Herzberg of Newark's public schools, is the "yeah" of today. Beowulf or any other early Briton would have pronounced it in the same manner if not with the same irritating inflection. Also, said Supervisor Herzberg, the use of "them" for "those" is no modern...
...William Lloyd Garrison and Horace Greeley, the American press lost its crusading temper. Editors took it as their business astutely to tell their readers only what they liked to hear. When the old-fashioned virtues became museum-pieces, "Vanity Fair" and "Life" were careful merely to raise an eyebrow but never to frown at the human comedy...