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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

Guy, a handsome, highbrowed, square-jawed young man, visited the Rusk house frequently, escorted Peggy to an occasional football game, took her bowling, and made no secret of his existence.

From Time Magazine Archive

Few weeks ago one Herbert Hyman Hornstein, highbrowed Brown University graduate in the class of 1932, was arrested in Los Angeles.

From Time Magazine Archive

But even as the House brandished the ax, a highbrowed, heavy-jowled Congressman from South Dakota was rushing to avert it.

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 George, Walter Lionel




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