Word: chinning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Incident. A miser, who distrusts his socialist nephew, screams for joy out of the window when imperial troops rout the revolutionaries. A stray bullet catches him in the chin...
...curse, to abuse Gettis for his idleness. When reproved, he issued a profane challenge to fisticuffs. A crowd formed. Up leapt Mr. Gettis. His old hand, rivered with dull veins, blotched along the back with great patches like distended freckles, hardened into a knot, smote the bully upon the chin, dropped him to the sidewalk. Said Mr. Gettis: "I'm not too old to thrash an upstart...
...disheartening to learn that Captain Kidd was only an inept revenue agent, but these histories have their compensations. Henry Morgan of Jamaica comes up to scratch as the bellicose gentleman adventurer. No brigand could be more fearsome than Blackbeard Teach, who festooned his ears with braids from his chin and decked his hat with blazing brimstone. Also, there are the two extraordinary prototypes of the bobbed-hair bandit, Pirates Mary Read and Anne Bonny, who successfully combined marauding and maternity. Author Hurd selects a dozen of the sea-rogues, letting a good tale justify its telling. Author Seitz collects...
...Angeles, seven earnest young men marched one after another to the rostrum of the Philharmonic Auditorium. Arranging his notes, "shooting" his cuffs, clearing his throat, elevating his chin, each young man in turn orated of judges-the Hon. Louis W. Myers, Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court; a retired Judge, a female school superintendent, two professors, a learned doctor, a bishop-empowered to award prizes to the amount...
...foreigners. They are always there--more and more of them. The good old Boxer days were the days of real sport. Carpenter Hay didn't hang the open door right. This famous portal swings only one way--in, always in. It's high time, says almond-eyed Chu-Chin-Chow, to declare a Monroe Doctrine for China, including "exploitation" along with "colonization" in the text. Perhaps he doesn't like having his affairs regulated by strange, jabbering merchants and ship's cooks. And who shall say him nay? After all, the "heathen Chinee" may be human--who knows?--just like...