Word: chins
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...amiable, freckle-faced man who likes Chihuahuas and gladioli, usually appears in unpressed clothes with a stubble on his chin, and who has been connected with almost every farm organization in the Northwest, William Lemke thinks and speaks with a well-trained mind. Even colleagues who question his judgment concede his ability and conscientiousness. Well-versed in insurgent politics by his long career in North Dakota's Non-Partisan League as it wrested control of the state Republican machine from Old Guardsmen, Candidate Lemke replied last week when asked how he was going to finance his new party...
Political oldsters began to remark with surprise that they believed John D. M. Hamilton with his cleft chin might prove a worthy match for James A. Farley with his double chin. Within 48 hours the two were at each other's throats...
...Deal but economics and weather saved the potato farmers' shirts. Having taken it on the chin so badly in 1935, growers naturally planted fewer potatoes for 1936. On top of curtailed planting came late killing frosts in the North. In the Southeast a two-month drought has done more than legislation could ever do. Fortnight ago, potato conditions in Georgia were so bad that Governor Eugene Talmadge, a sizable potato grower himself, commanded: "Tell all the preachers to have meetings Sunday afternoon at three o'clock to pray for rain...
...days but months and years in advance by Sir Percy Elly Bates, Cunard White Star's long-jawed Flintshire chairman, whose gold spectacles have such long frames that the lenses rest on the very tip of his long nose, and whose jutting jaw makes his friends call him "Chin" Bates. Much like the late great Calvin Coolidge in the dryness of his remarks, in the way his mouth folds upon itself and closes like a purse after one of his Flintshire sallies, Sir Percy was easily the most eminent tycoon aboard the Queen Mary...
...modern lemur, which lived in the Paleocene epoch of 60,000,000 years ago. Only a few toes were missing. So far as the paleontologist knew it was the most complete Paleocene skeleton of any sort ever recovered. Preserved even was a hyoid bone which served to support chin and jaw muscles. This bone was an eighth of an inch long, no thicker than a horsehair. Dr. Jepsen could assign no certain reason for such miraculous preservation but he thought it possible that the little body had fallen into the edge of a pond or puddle and been covered quickly...