Word: chins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Equipped with chin whiskers which give him the traditional appearance of a doctor, Illinois' little Senator James Hamilton Lewis lives up to it by taking a lively interest in medicine. To members of the profession, however, Senator Lewis' whiskers may well seem less medical than Mephistophelean. Last month he appeared before the convention of the American Medical Association to predict that doctors were in danger of becoming nationalized as officers of the Federal Government in recompense for which the Government might pay the medical bills of citizens who could not afford to do so themselves (TIME, June...
Under five feet, pumpkin-cheeked, with a button nose and a buttonhole mouth "nearly in the centre of his visage," a double chin that hung like an udder, deep red hair, high-domed forehead, big ears and plenty of fat. set off by the loudest clothes to be found in a loud century, Gibbon's personal appearance was the most noticeable of the handicaps reputed to have combined to produce the perfect historian...
...Bloom. Born 67 years ago in Pekin, Ill., of Polish-Jewish descent, reared in San Francisco, Sol had developed into a Manhattan real-estate man and music publisher before Tammany Hall, sensing his peculiar talents, elected him to Congress. For the past 14 years his Neanderthal forehead, nose and chin have distinguished him in Congress. So have his activities...
...When this failed to cheer Mrs. Noonan, Mr. Putnam snapped: "It's this way. Bee. One of two things have happened. Either they were killed outright-and that must come to all of us sooner or later-or they are alive and will be picked up. Keep your chin up. Bee." Mrs. Noonan presently collapsed...
...railway counsel unbent and shook the paw. Unseeing Dr. Claus continued his plea. The 13-month-old dog rolled over on his back, waved his paws, swished his tail. Dr. Claus stopped talking, unleashed the dog. With a bound Rex leaped to Chairman Bulwinkle, licked his hand, his chin. Then the big pup made a circuit of the room, pawing Congressional knees, shaking Congressional hands. After a final shake with Chairman Bulwinkle's daughter, called in from the next office, Rex returned to his master, nuzzled his knee. "The subcommittee," twinkled Congressman Bulwinkle, "will favorably report this bill...