Word: chins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Farmers' Friend Peek is a stalwart gentleman, middleaged, enthusiastic, virile. He photographs like a professional wrestler, with his big broad chin tucked down toward his collar so that his neck swells. Chairman Raskob of the Democratic National Committee took a look at him and listened for four hours. Then Chairman Raskob issued a statement saying that he himself did not know so much about the Equalization Fee, but that the Farm Problem would be solved by "sane fundamentals and sound economics...
...here is the strangest thing. Do you know what finally cleared up my head? Those seven socks to the chin Dempsey hit me in the seventh round in Chicago. From that time on I never had that tight feeling in the head or that haziness before the eyes...
...Jamaica, N. Y., one Lawrence Grenbaum got drunk, crawled out on a roof, slipped, grabbed the edge of the roof with his hands and chin. There he hung until he died. Policemen found his body several hours later, still hanging from the roof, suspended by his stiff fingers...
...face and wears a harp on his bathrobe, who knocked out Sid Terris with one punch but who couldn't lay a glove on Champion Samuel Mandell, feinted with his left last week in Madison Square Garden, then crossed his right to the retreating but tough chin of Phillip McGraw, lightweight from Marathon, Greece, knocking him through the ropes into the lap of one of the judges. McGraw climbed back, was knocked down three times more, after which, amid cries of "Stop it," Referee Dorman lifted Mc-Larnin's hand...
...feet tall, fell down a well. The well was 20 feet deep; in its bottom were five feet of water. Standing in this, Edward West yelled for help. As he did so, his feet sank slowly into the mud and the water rose slowly along his neck, up his chin. At the end of an hour, the water reached the mouth of Edward West. Unable to shout any more, in a few minutes he would be unable to breathe. As he waited for a slow drowning, Edward West saw the face of one George N. Lyman...