Word: eyebrows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...important. Mlle. Mala thinks it is too bad that most men shy away from makeup. Women need a dark foundation to disguise "blotches and blemishes," plenty of shadow for double chins, two different shades of brown powder on the cheekbones, non-running mascara on the eyelids, a touch of eyebrow pencil. Lipstick depends on lighting: Mlle. Mala wore blue on her first TV appearance, last week had switched to brown...
Governor Dwight Green of Illinois was having a case of actor's nerve. Aware that the Republican Convention would be televised, the silver-haired keynoter tiptoed into a television studio and tried on some faces. He tried eyebrow pencils, lipsticks and Pancake Make-up (neither Max Factor 23 nor Max Factor 29 was quite right, but Max Factor 28, a nice healthy brown, looked wonderful on the handsome governor). Thinking it all over, he settled for a fast barbershop...
...whole frontal lobe, the surgeons remove part of the brain tissue-sometimes tiny bits, sometimes pieces as big as a cookie. The size depends on the patient's symptoms ; so does the area in which the hole is made (it may be in the temple just above the eyebrow, higher on the forehead, or at the top of the skull, depending on what part of the brain is to be removed...
Raising an almost imperceptible eyebrow (by mentioning that the letter came by prepaid cable), the Times ran Tovarish Shisheyev's dispatch in its news columns. It remained for a Times reader to supply the grain of salt. Wrote Russian-born J. Anthony Marcus, a veteran foreign-trade specialist: "It would not surprise me to learn that the 'chief engineer' had no more to do with the writing and dispatching of the cable than you or I. ... With about 1,600 words in the cable, even at the lowest rate, the cost would have been about $100, close...
...they thought was the average moviegoer's indignation over Communism in Hollywood, as spotlighted by Parnell Thomas' committee. In Hollywood there was fear of further movie retrenchments; last week Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer slashed its payroll by 40% and other studios were firing hundreds of carpenters, electricians and eyebrow-pencilers...