Word: eyebrows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hygiene Department. It has been saved the trouble and expense of disproving the common belief that Harvard men know too much. Entrust the subject to one who is not only well known in this field, but who is also in existence; unite the Hygiene and the Raised-Eyebrow Departments, and the latter will perish. Then perhaps you will not be able to tell a Harvard man anything. But until that millenium Vassar will lead the fashion in marriage and Harvard will succumb, an innocent victim of superior and scientific strategy...
...hands she placed Fingertips with these attachments: complexion brush, hair tonic brush, medicine dropper, eyebrow brush, eyebrow pencil, screw driver, paintbrush, pencil, three-bladed manicure tool and crochet needle. She showed how a man could make a fairly complete toilet without putting anything down or picking anything up, predicted that Fingertip-equipped housewives would find it easier to peel oranges, pit grape fruit, scrape pans. Motion pictures showed how the devices were used for drawing, painting, etching, needlework...
While deeply impressed by the renowned name of Hispano-Suiza, I take leave, nevertheless, to raise an eyebrow at TIME'S Jan. 11 resume of Spain's current dilemma. Granted tongue-in-cheek journalism applied to stories such as Mussolini's Jew-baiting in the same issue is more effective than open condemnation. However, applied in the wrong place, as TIME did very obviously in its yarn on the use of "moteur canon" (i.e., hollow propeller shafts hurling machine gun bullets or small calibre shells) in aerial warfare, it is little more than an exhibition of Munchausen...
This statement safe & sane though it might sound to most laymen, caused many an old eyebrow to rise in Wall Street last week. For one of the New York Stock Exchange's oldest and most honored traditions is official silence on the state of the market. And the speaker was forthright Charles Richard Gay, the Exchange's "New Deal" president, talking to an Associated Press reporter...
...records in the matter of being graduated with the least possible amount of studying, even though it evinces a certain arch pride in pointing out that it, too, occasionally depends on bluff to answer Mr. Cram's essay questions. Recently a Yardling was heard to remark with a lifted eyebrow and a smug smile to an apparently shocked companion: 'You know, I didn't crack a book all day yesterday...