Word: chin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is no one who seems able to identify the strange little mummy that the expedition discovered. For a while there was strong suspicion that it was some relation of Amenhotep III, but his ears seemed a little too large. Undoubtedly, however, he has the Toothmes chin and the Hotshepsut eyebrows, which leads to the shocking conclusion that he may not have been quite legitimate. It seems too bad to bring such a thing to light, particularly after so many years, but the matter must be looked at frankly...
...gobbet awoke, it had a skin. It could not swim, except ver- tically, like a puppy treading water, until its head grew heavy. Then it took on a tight, corrugated armor-corset. Blue flint chippings-teeth-hedged the emery-paper tongue. Filiform barbels, for probing mud, sprouted under the chin. By this time, the gobbet was recognizable as a fish, a young Sturgeon, Sturly...
...boiled to the bone in the cinema. There is a desert, a strong husband, a capturing villain and a subtitle that reads: "You bought me with a handful of nuggets, and then you drove me before you across the desert like a beast." This from the play. Chu Chin Chow. Morris Gest delivered this spectacle several years ago. London luxuriated in it for endless performances. It was a big sheik adventure with lots of girls and a minor supply of costumes. The picturesque Oriental attributes of the story-caves and palaces and deserts-are naturally big medicine for the cinema...
Born in Vienna, in 1875, he began to play the violin as soon as he was strong enough to hold one to his chin.* He disliked practicing. When he was ten, however, he won first prize in the Conservatoire at Vienna; at 12, the Prix de Rome at the Paris Conservatoire; at 14, he toured the U. S. with Moritz Rosenthal, was hailed as a "wonder-child." He returned to Austria for required general military service, returned to Austria again to sterner service...
...Gerald Bullet adeptly spins out mystification until it becomes mysticism. The Enchanted Moment tells how a certain gnome made a top-hatted, cut-awayed, striped-trousered bondholder do a dance without top hat, cutaway, trousers. The Mole was the size of a pea. It was situated on the chin of a storekeeper's wife. Out of it grew three black feline whiskers and the storekeeper's destruction...