Word: chins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nelson Johnson is a regular Old King Cole. He is plump as a pillow. He has thinning pale-gold hair, with lashes and brows to match, a face all shades of pink, from salmon to sunset, big enough nose, strong chin, mouth with a chronic smile. In ricksha, cutaway or gas mask he looks more like a tire salesman than an Ambassador...
Barrington pictured Lord Haw-Haw as "rather like P. G. Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster . . . with a receding chin, a questing nose, thin, yellow hair brushed back, a monocle, a vacant eye, a gardenia in his buttonhole." Fancying a creature like this at the Zeesen mike, Britons nowadays consider it a great gag when Lord Haw-Haw says, sententiously: "Britain, your naval prestige is destroyed. We Germans now command the seas. A submarine can dive many times; a capital ship only once...
Dick Harlow was a soldier during the war and he can take it on the chin. In the heat of a football battle Dick sits on the bench calmly smoking an Havana cigar. Win or lose Dick takes it good naturedly; he works against overconfidence but he heaps praises where praises...
...training camps, where the bulk of British fliers are now being trained, boys of 20 and 21 are taught not only to fly, but to fight. Heavyweight Boxer Len Harvey (himself an R. A. F. sergeant) teaches them how to take it on the chin. Psychologists teach them how to make the most of their brains and nerves. Officers teach them to respect the authority of such crackerjack leaders as their Chief of Air Staff, Sir Cyril Newall...
...theatres. With a curfew law blotting out London's West End, producers rushed shows to the suburbs. In Berlin, once air-raid precautions were arranged, theatres reopened full blast. If the war runs on, it may well repeat the theatre boom of World War I, when Chu-Chin-Chow achieved the longest run (2,238 performances) in the history of the London theatre...