Word: chinlessness
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Sometimes it is needed by the aged to permit the successful fitting of dentures; but more often it is needed by the many young adults who have the chinless "Andy Gump" profile commonly associated with a severe case of "buck teeth," a jaw that sags too far, or marked malformation or misplacement of either...
Another New York fop? Maybe. But the accent is still there (he says the hell with it, instead of the hell with it) and his off-stage manner is slow but concise, always searching for the right word: unhip, unfunny, but firm. The pudgy, chinless, spoiled-boy face creases slightly, the lower lip sucks in, and then Wolfe speaks--rephrasing himself once or twice in case you didn't get it the first time around...
...roaring '20s, the family comics came along. Such respectable folk as the Gumps neither played the stock market nor swilled bathtub gin; it was probably no accident that Andy Gump was chinless. Blondie began life as a sharp-tongued flapper, but she soon settled down to suburban housewifely routine and is still the most widely read strip.* Little Orphan Annie veered from the family pattern since she lacked parents. But Daddy Warbucks, a billionaire arms manufacturer, has more than made up for their absence. With his help, ageless Annie has plowed under no end of evildoers while issuing...
weeds are the chinless boys who go to deb dances in England, affairs that a pear-shaped young English authoress describes as hell's boring. Her book is kind of, too. (See BOOKS...
...least it's supposed to be my autobiography. I'm the coronet because daddy is a noble lord. And the weeds are what I call the chinless boys who go to deb dances. It's hell's boring, actually...