Word: eyebrows
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Then he indicated another arc closer to the port and said, "If they get to here, they'll be able to hit us with regular Chinese artillery." Somebody indicated a still smaller arc on the map and asked: "What happens when they get here?" The major cocked an eyebrow at his questioner, shrugged and replied, with an air of finality: "Then, we've had it." As it turned out, the Chinese had nothing heavier than mortars...
...painfully, impartial. These days that is saying a good deal. A previously published book on the Hiss trial ("Seeds of Treason" by Ralph de Toledano and Victor Lasky) paints so black a picture of the defendant that probably even Thomas F. Murphy, the erstwhile prosecutor, would raise an occasional eyebrow over it. Mr. Cooke, then, is accurate. Whether he is more than that is another question...
Maurice Chevalier, the Knight of the Twitching Eyebrow, makes a lot of mad love to Jeanette MacDonald (and one or two other femmes fatales) in two thoroughly delightful Paramount re-releases. Miss MacDonald looks as if she's having a hell of a good time while he does, and there's every reason to believe that you will too. In addition to Chevalier's great Gallie charm and expressive, intimate style of singing and acting, these two old flicks still have a good deal more to offer than most recent musical releases in their all-too-rare combination of fine...
...Taylorsville, Ky., a weekly editor raised a skeptical eyebrow at Drew Pearson's column in nearby Louisville's Courier-Journal last month. Pearson's Washington "Merry-Go-Round" told a "shameful, shocking story" of thousands of juvenile delinquents who were being imprisoned with hardened criminals. As a horrible example, he cited Taylorsville's own "two-cell, log jail" where, he said, "a 13-year-old runaway boy was locked up . . . for four days with a screaming, laughing maniac...
...more cynical observers think that Godfrey's greatest audience bait is the faintly smutty double meaning. "Godfrey can do more with the lift of an eyebrow than De Maupassant could with a volume," says one adman. "Whenever he ad-libs he talks himself right into the bathroom." Such scatological shockers as the miniature outhouse he used as a TV prop invariably explode titillated giggles in his studio and television audiences...