Word: chin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With this disillusioned preface, he sets out on the recital of the great fights and fighters from James Figg, master of "the Foil, Backsword, Cudgel, and Fist" to the redoubtable Dempsey. There were, in the days when the knockout to the point of the chin was still unknown, such colorful fighters as Buckhorse, "singularly unsightly," Jack Slack (the Bristol butcher), Mendoza the Jew (founder of scientific boxing, the first boxer to go on the stage), Mr. Jackson (the first "gentleman" fighter), the Belchers, the Game Chicken, and Daniel Donnelly (an Irishman) of whom it was written...
...miles an hour. In the meantime, the Holt Manufacturing Co. has already produced an ordnance tractor that can attain a speed of 30 miles an hour and can negotiate a 45-degree slope without difficulty. Incidentally, it can be driven submerged in water up to the driver's chin...
...ignorant immigrant from Russia. From odd jobs in the streets of Boston, he became an attache in the Theatre. He has risen through a series of phenomenal coups to the position of dictator of theatrical spectacle in America. After a number of staggeringly magnificent musical extravaganzas (Aphrodite, Chu Chin Chow, etc.) he introduced the Chauve Souris, the Moscow Art Company, Duse, The Miracle. He has the combined temperaments of the no-limit poker player and P. T. Barnum, plus dominating artistic instinct. He has become thereby a unique figure in a world where eccentricity is the primary requirement...
John Gay's The Beggar's Opera closed in London. It opened just three years and seven months ago and had a run of 1,463 consecutive performances. This record has been eclipsed only twice, by Chu Chin Chow and Charley's Aunt. There were days, however, when The Beggar's Opera held the endurance record from all comers. When it originally opened in London in the 1700's it had the longest run that any play had had until that time-50 consecutive evenings, if memory serves. It was said at the time that...
Another scene was a press conference between several reporters and an official with much foliage on his chin...