Word: chinning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Smetona, now 53 years of age, is conceded to be one of the greatest Lithuanian patriots of all time. For 20 years he worked for Lithuanian nationalism and independence against the oppression of Tsarist Russia. A diminutive man, dark, with narrow, beady eyes, a stubby goatee spread over his chin and a bushy, drooping moustache hanging orderly from his upper lip, he is an excellent, forceful speaker, sound, indurate, potent...
...which men held, variously, had 1) landed fair, above Sharkey's high-waisted purple trunks; or 2) landed foul, on or near Sharkey's groin; or 3) inspired Sharkey to hope for a decision of foul, a hope cut short by the referee's silence and Dempsey's terrific chin smash...
...According to despatches, a Philadelphian, to show his friend how the moot blow landed, pinched his friend quickly on stomach and chin. The friend toppled, fractured his skull, died...
From the Battices' cabin came a gurgling scream. All hands bounded down the companionway. There lay Mrs. Battice with a necklace of blood under her chin, from ear to ear. Mr. Battice was mumbling: "She said she loved Badke...
...SANDHILLS? Antony Marsden?A. & C. Bom ($2). John Creed, perfect English gentleman, calls late at night upon a Mr. Murgatroyd to punch his head for a card game insult. Mr. Murgatroyd drops dead after taking a right to the chin. A motorcycle and a friend's lugger land John Creed safely among the dunes of France. With Scotland Yard sleuthing furiously in alternate chapters, John Creed evades the law through great physical discomfort, many a hairbreadth escape, but never for an instant ceases to be a perfect English gentleman. He rides in a circus, skins through a fire, hides...