Word: chins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...waddled out of his corner and started to swing his short arms in an old-fashioned goto. He missed five out of every six swings. Before the chuckling spectators had time to get accustomed to this primitive technique, one of Galento's punches met Nathan Mann's chin -squarely and effectively, for Galento's fifth successive knockout. It had taken Champion Joe Louis longer (three rounds) to dispose of Nathan Mann last winter...
...suddenly a couple days ago," stated Norman Hapgood '41 who in the presence of a cheering crowd of forty, accomplished the feat last night of going out of a room on the fourth floor of Thayer, walking down four flights, and up again balancing a broom on his chin, to win a bet of two and a half dollars...
...frank melodrama is based on the Mexican border legend of a rough-riding Robin Hood of the last century whose caballeros jubilantly bedevil the inept soldiery, pink villains neatly through the heart, are never too preoccupied to sing a rousing song or chuck a cantina girl jovially under the chin...
...week in the old cell block of Sing Sing prison, whose gates had closed behind Richard Whitney, five-time president of the New York Stock Exchange (TIME, March 21). Starting a five-to-ten year sentence for grand larceny, holding his substantial, six-foot-two figure erect and his chin lifted, Mr. Whitney-Prisoner No. 94,835-displayed such extreme fortitude that it seemed at times like a pose. He was assigned to a tiny, damp, malodorous cell whose only plumbing was a bucket and he asked for no favors. But deference, curiosity and admiration were apparent all around...
...birds was the Pelicanus Americanus (American White Pelican), an ugly creature with a long double chin; the other was the Phoenicopterus Ruber (American Flamingo), a crimson-colored monstrosity with a long hose-like neck...