Word: chins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...manner he is quiet and capable. He has a strong chin, graying red hair. In constitution, and hence disposition, he is inclined to be dyspeptic. But, overcoming physical difficulties, he has a way of applying himself to the business in hand and bringing forth a thoroughly sound and common sense conclusion. The late Senator Ollie James of Kentucky once compared him to a snapping turtle. "He looks harmless, but just prod him once and see how quick he'll bite...
...Tirpitz!" The Communists felt bound to show him nautical honors. As one man they rose and focussed a common hiss upon the chin foliage of the Grand Admiral, allegedly in imitation of a sea breeze. But the Grand Admiral was not moved...
...kind of man who conceives an ideal order of society is, it seems, predestined to have the befoliaged type of face. There was Plato with his curly tonsorial scenery, Karl Marx with his generous whiskers, Lenin with chin shrubbery, Trotzky with a soup moustache. When one comes to King C. Gillette, famed inventor and manufacturer of the safety razor, one would think that regardless of any idea in his head, he would be clean-shaven. Not so. His book*-a manufacturer's view of society-possibly explains the razor man's moustache. What he proposes is, in effect...
...Miss Wethered played with that calm concentration of hers which has the appearance of sheer boredom, while Miss Leitch, nervous before the start, gritted her teeth, stuck out her chin, and played with obvious fire and determination." Such was the cabled description of the fifth round of the British women's open golf championship at Portrush, Ireland. Joyce Wethered, "cool and collected," took the match from her older opponent by 6 up and 4 to play. Later she took the final round (7 & 6) from Mrs. F. Cautley "who was bothered by rain...
Tonsorial scenery . . . generous whiskers . . . chin shrubbery . . . soup moustache...