Word: chins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world's greatest living cavalryman sat reading in his high-ceilinged London study one noon last week. Suddenly the book slid from his hands, his chin sagged to his chest and Field Marshal Sir Edmund Hynman Allenby, first Viscount Allenby of Megiddo* and of Felixstowe, was dead...
David Martin as a gift for Franklin's family when the subject was 61. Franklin specified the thumb on chin, made no objection to the warts (see cut). Ten years later Jean Baptiste Greuze made him elderly and dignified in a fur collar and fine blue velvet coat to match his eyes...
...exactly 10 o'clock members of the Grand Council of Fascism, followed by the Italian Cabinet, all in Fascist trimmings & trappings, marched into the great room. Goat-bearded Marshal Emilio de Bono, recalled last autumn from Ethiopia under a cloud, was there. Chin-tufted Libyan Governor Italo Balbo had flown over from Tripoli to attend the party. Near him sat his Fascist twin, Italian Ambassador Dino Grandi, who had sped to Rome from London...
...balcony. Ta ra ta ta ra ta ta ra! blared the bugles below. The cheers of the crowd rose to a shrill, hysterical scream. Women fainted in the crush and their rigid bodies were passed out from hand to hand over the heads of the crowd. Finally, chin outthrust, Benito Mussolini rested both hands on the balustrade and bellowed: "Officers, non-commissioned officers, privates, Black Shirts of the Fascist revolution, Italian men and women at home and throughout the world-LISTEN...
...TIME, April 20). Chancellor Schuschnigg's next move was to attempt to force the dissolution of Prince von Starhemberg's well-equipped private army on the ground that the Heimwehr was no longer needed since Austria had adopted military conscription for its regular Army. Sticking out his chin, Prince von Starhemberg snapped that the Heimwehr would be disbanded only "over my dead body...