Word: eyebrows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there were rumblings within the G.O.P.'s ranks. When New York's Governor Tom Dewey won high praise from the C.I.O. for his anti-discrimination bill (TIME, March 19) and other "liberal" measures, many a conservative Republican eyebrow was lifted. Last week Chairman Brownell appointed, as Congressional aide to the National Committee, round-faced, ex-Senator John Anthony Danaher, of Connecticut, who had been beaten last fall largely on his isolationist voting record. But John Danaher had gained the respect of Republican Senators and Congressmen, of all shades of opinion, for his legal talents and his capacity...
...balloons tethered in its skies, incongruous lifebelts draped around monstrous water tanks, fantastic vistas of destruction, decorative weeds running wild amid ancient stones, that the fact that ice-cream cones are now being devoured in broad daylight in the West End will hardly cause it to raise an eyebrow...
Five Republicans of the House Foreign Affairs Committee last week came out with an eyebrow-raising minority report on the French Lend-Lease agreement (TIME, March 12). They said it was "by its very terms a postwar agreement...
...Corcoran Biennial carries four sizable awards. This year's Second Prize, $1,500, went to Malvin Marr Albright who signs his work "Zsissly," to keep from being confused with his twin brother, famed Chicago Painter Ivan Le Lorraine Albright. Marsh's first-prizewinner raised an occasional eyebrow, lowbrow and highbrow; they lowered to normal at Zsissly-Albright's Deer Isle, Maine, a faithful-to-nature landscape...
Paper Profits. Brookings' 34-page report was prepared by Joseph Mayer, 57, a slender eyebrow-mustached economist-author (Bigger Men in Bigger Jobs, The Regulation of Commercialized Vice). As vith all Brookings reports, it was carefully scanned by bald, pudgy Harold G. Moulton, Institution president, and given a preface by way of approval...