Word: chins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paddy O'Day" is one of those pictures in which no one can help smiling after Jane Withers, Miss Temple's only rival, has told him in her inimitable way to hold up his chin. As is her custom, she makes a real fellow out of a hopeless sissy; so much so that he feeds his favorite stuffed bird to her vivacious pup. But her achievements are never limited to such trivial reformations, for she is a minor Orphan Annie. This time she puts over a night-club venture for a bunch of Russian immigrants whom...
...first press conference after the AAA decision. President Roosevelt sat back in his chair with chin up, cigaret holder cocked rakishly out of a corner of his mouth, a tight-lipped grin on his face, waiting for unwelcome questions. Every inch of floor space was covered by newshawks waiting with pencils poised. The President's grin widened. There was no news, he announced, except-and he stopped to cast a roguish look over his shoulder at the tousled-headed Democratic National Committee publicity man- except that Charley Michelson needed a haircut...
Senator Nye, brown-haired and youthful-looking, sitting as chairman at the centre of the Committee table with his pointed chin thrust out, looked as if he were oppressed by the knowledge that the eyes of the nation were on him. At his elbow, equally intent, sat the Committee's counsel, bushy-browed Stephen Raushenbush, who had conscientiously sifted thousands & thousands of documents in preparation for the hearing. Senator Vandenburg smoked a cigar, tried to look urbane. Senator Clark, with round pink face and snapping eyes, sat waiting to ask sharp, insinuating questions. One of the founders...
...American Association for the Advancement of Science in St. Louis. But for most of the audience it marked the end of the "mystery" of cosmic rays, wrote finis to one of the most reverberating scientific controversies of the century. The tall, rugged man with deep-set eyes and heavy chin who was reading a paper was Arthur Holly Compton. Newshawks esteem this topflight physicist and Nobel Prizewinner of the University of Chicago for his ability to get things said without benefit of polysyllables. His address last week was understandable to anyone who knew what photons and ions are. He introduced...
Divorced. Harry Krakow ("King Levinsky"), 25, clownish Chicago fisticuffer; by Mrs. Roxanne Glickman Levinsky, 20, onetime Century of Progress fan-dancer; in Chicago. Grounds: cruelty. Five weeks after their wedding he punched her on the chin...