Word: chinning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Britons know that it was Nurse Knight who gave to Baby Betty a close-fitting necklace of tiny coral beads. The hygienic feature of this necklace is that it is too short to be gotten up over the chin and into the mouth. "Nurse Knight necklaces," as worn by Baby Betty, have become the accepted adornment for occupants of the smart patent leather prams which parade daily in Hyde Park...
They say Europe is effete. They say nothing can move sophisticated Europe. . . . Last week in the Salle Gaveau (Paris concert hall) a fair-haired little boy in a blue sailor suit put his violin under his chin and played Mozart. When he had finished he smiled simply at the big audience-smiled, and soon went on playing. He did not seem to notice that women were weeping, that men were looking at their waistcoat buttons. .After his last number, he could not help noticing that hats were flying up in the air, that the room was ringing with deafening cheers...
Active Painter Clivette is in attendance at the show, slender wiry, electrical, his hands like names. To illustrate motion, he will balance an umbrella on his goateed chin before a canvas. "After 40 years of tossing knives into the air you learn light and motion," says...
...foremost living composer. The subject of their judgment may be an old man, his apogee undoubtedly passed. But the creations of Richard Strauss, are never treated casually, for his work is intensely personal and his personality is provoking. Looking upon the philosophical brow, dreamy eyes, sensitive lips, effeminate chin, one marvels how this musician can grate so on the world. There is his mercenariness. Once he invited notables from all parts of Europe to a supper given after the premiere of his ballet La Legende de Joseph, then served upon each guest a bill for his share of the food...
...years. Well I drove 'Teddy' and a bunch of friends to their lodgings in Church Place. They made me come in and put the gloves on with 'Teddy.' He started for me but I jumped aside and swung with my right. It smacked him on the chin and down he went...