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Max Rushden chairs proceedings, soliciting controversial, highbrowed and often amusing opinion from esteemed guests Jonathan Wilson, Jon Brodkin and ... eh, me.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 17, 2020

Standing in front of the Philadelphia Orchestra, the slender, highbrowed violinist found "my fingers cold . . . getting weaker and weaker."

From Time Magazine Archive

Another dancer, who took her talents directly into camps, was highbrowed Ruth St. Denis.

From Time Magazine Archive

Slim, highbrowed Oswald H. Brownlee, research associate in economics at Iowa State College, thinks the answer to both questions is Yes.

From Time Magazine Archive

That is because Mr Arnold Bennett takes up to his public an attitude more highbrowed than I could imagine if I were writing a skit on his book.

From A Novelist on Novels by Walter Lionel George




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