Word: eyebrows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...responsibility. The ill-fated Bingham Plan also served notice that Harvard was not willing to cast aside a precedent which had been founded on this ideal of Big Three athletic leadership. And lest Princeton be hasty in assuming a holier-than-thou attitude, there has been many a raised eyebrow at the well-publicised added attraction this Saturday which will undoubtedly build up an otherwise modest attendance in Palmer Stadium...
...President arched an eyebrow. "About Jan. 4," said he, naming the date when Congress convenes...
...Cunard, birdlike blonde widow of fox-hunting Sir Bache Cunard. The daughter of the late E. F. Burke of New York and known to Mayfair as '"Emerald," Lady Cunard is the mother of exotic Nancy Cunard, whose fondness for Negroes as dancing partners has caused many a raised eyebrow in London and New York...
Born and half-bred an Episcopalian (he taught Sunday School, went to church every day in Lent), Upton Sinclair soon graduated into a more intense life as a puritan in Greenwich Village. Readers accustomed to his calves-foot-jelly style may raise an eyebrow when he says that he still has the cadences of the New Testament and the prayer-book running through his head, judges his own sentences by that echo. An optimist from the word go - enemies say he even jumped the gun - Author Sinclair early joined battle with his life-long foe, Determinism. Xo philosopher nor theologian...
...Guns. The British, who claim to know most about bossing "natives," lifted a disapproving eyebrow when it became known that the U. S. was going to let the Filipinos keep house independently. White prestige in the Orient would be definitely lowered when a brown man replaced a white man in Malacanan Palace. One pre-inaugural problem was whether brown Manuel Quezon was to get a 21-gun salute to white Frank Murphy's 19, ultimately solved by giving them both...