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...technical book, or one on philosophy or art, and then give without a stumble a half-hour precis of its contents. In lectures and debates at the Sorbonne, in meetings of legal and philosophical societies, he shines-a grinning, grown-up Quiz-kid with a cowlick over his forehead...
...antagonists' physical appearance. Trotsky, haranguing his troops, his outsize, intellectual, goateed head cocked above his flaring military coat, looked like a blend of a broker who has just made a killing on the Paris bourse and an actor from the Yiddish Art Theater. Stalin, with his low forehead, ferally cautious manner, soft but searching eyes (says Trotsky: "The jaundiced glint of his eyes impelled sensitive people to take notice"), might but for his size (5 ft. 5 in.) have been a heavy from the Grand Guignol...
Many a paunchy, jowly citizen of U.S. suburbia, when he thinks of his youth, remembers Alice Prin. For Alice, with the heavy purple rouge over the surrealist green powder, Alice, with the bright crimson cupid bow hiding her thin upper lip and the spit curl embellishing her low forehead, was the toast (to put it delicately) of Paris in the days when Expatria infested the Left Bank...
...Customs, Lieut. Commander R. G. Lowry, R.N., writes as follows: A neckerchief usually of black silk was worn around the neck, and was sometimes used so as to protect the coat from the pigtail, but its real use was as a sweat rag worn around the neck or forehead; it was generally black in colour because this showed the dirt least. The black silk was in general use some years before Nelson's death; it may have been worn as mourning for him following the precedent of the ship's company of the Berwick who, in 1794, went...
When Red Mike gets excited, the veins invariably stand out on his forehead. Last week his face looked like a relief map of the Balkans. What brought on his near-apoplexy was a proposal by New York's Board of Transportation to sell back to Consolidated Edison, a private utility, three power plants which the city had bought in 1940. Explained the board: the power plants, which serve municipal subways, need such costly repairs that the city could save money by buying power from the utility...