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Word: chinlessness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1927-1927
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Juror Kidwell, a sallow youngish man, is not what Washingtonians would call a "drugstore cowboy" and certainly not a "street sheik" just a chinless young man with prominent eyes and ears Who rather en joyed his sudden importance His soft-drink cronies would ask him about the trial and he welcomed the opportunity to give what he considered dark hints of mysterious grandeur. He would say that Harry Sinclair was a "nice, democratic guy in spite of all his money" He would say that he, Edward Kidwell was a "pretty good yes-and-no-man" and that he was "just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Oil On a Jury | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

Puzzling servant girls; patient schoolboys, chinless sodawater clerks; burly salespersons all want that $1,000. Dirt cheap publications which they read offer them riches. Scarlet billboards proffer fortunes. Solve a puzzle. Win a trip to Europe, or an automobile, or a set of dishes or that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Puzzle Trust | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

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