Word: chinning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...practitioner in Marion, Ohio, walks seven miles every morning to visit his son's grave. Reporter George Kellogg, writing about him for Bernarr Macfadden's Physical Culture, describes how Dr. Harding returns from that walk "breathing through his nostrils, his color high, his eyes snapping, shoulders back, chin in, step like the crack of a whip." He relates how he still practises medicine with offices in the antique building that houses the Marion Star, where "the old gentleman, either sitting straight as an arrow at his desk when he fancies the posture, or sprawling down in a deep...
...young German, whose heavy, amazed face protruded from the folds of a bathrobe that concealed a torso bulging with incredible dorsal muscles, a pair of clumsy thighs. On his left sat an old Irishman, tired and sly, with a streak of blood like a scarlet worm running down his chin from the corner of his mouth. The ghouls waited. This man in the blue suit stood before them to announce a decision. He did so, when he felt that the drama of his pause had reached its climax, by sharply raising one of his hands. Instantly, from the smoky caves...
...fleshy, usually highly-colored process of the skin hanging from the chin or throat of a bird or reptile...
However mixed the metaphor, Blasco Ibanez, the Spanish novelist, has taken arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing has not ended them. That royal monstrosity, the Hapsburg chin, apparently terrifies him not a bit: on the contrary, it incites him to retaliate with a jaw all his own. He sits tight in his French villa at Mentone and hurls investive against the border at the Spanish monarch...
Being a Southerner, he is a Democrat. The State, during his governorship, was predominantly Republican, but, in 1908, the Republican legislature elected him to the U.S. Senate and the U. S. public inspected him for the first time. He had a retiring chin, a blunt nose, shrewd eyes and, at that time, a fine head of dark hair beginning to be streaked with gray. He was reserved, goodnatured, low-voiced, quiet, yet had the courage to precipitate a party row and fight it through?as afterwards developed...