Word: chin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...possessed only local influence as Military Governor of Chekiang province. Recently he boldly proclaimed the five provinces now within his grasp to be an independent state. Last week it was discovered that he was plotting against the Peking forces with Super-Tuchun Wu's most trusted henchman, General Chin...
...emphasize this appeal, posters in streetcars, on the pillars of subway stations, the billboards of vacant lots, present the picture of a woman in a shawl. Her chin is pressed to the pivot of her wrist; her eyes are smeared with black. She might be any age, this sad, sharpened Jewess; the thing that has pointed her bones and thinned her flesh is not age but weariness; she is the incarnation of the most desolate of physical woes, fatigue. "Are You Tired of Giving?" asks the caption. "You Don't Know What It Is to Be Tired...
...iron-grey hair was brushed straight up from his broad, handsome forehead, and his iron-grey beard came to a round point beneath a chin well formed and determined...
...bank, he called for 31 to the minute. Oxford hit up a game 32 and rowed it nicely if strenuously to stay in the race. Then the watchers on the shore saw something happen to Oxford. H. R. A. Edwards, the freshman No. 5, appeared to pull his chin down on his chest turtlewise. His shoulders sagged forward, his oar dragged. In a bit, he was rowing well again, but the race was over. Gliding along four lengths ahead, Cambridge spurted at the end, came within a minute of the record (18 min., 29 sec., established in 1911), shook hands...
...There are six other stories, including Rags Martin-Jones and the Prince of Wales, a joyous, fantastic assurance that Author Fitzgerald, however thoughtful these days, has sprouted no lugubrious grey chin-wisps...