Word: chins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strong chin, which means determination," puffed Arthur Brisbane in his column next day, "and a forehead to balance it." But most of old Columnist Brisbane's enthusiasm was reserved for Nancy Jo Landon, 3. Burbled he: "It is hard to understand why Governor Landon should bother with politics, possessing such a daughter. Nothing in nature is as beautiful as a little girl, and this is a marvelously beautiful little girl. . . . She may be the first woman President...
Alarm over the North China area larger than Ethiopia which Japan is trying to detach from China's Nanking Government by military intimidation and a "war without battles'' (TIME, Dec. 9) last week brought Chinese War Minister General Ho Ying-chin hotfoot to Peiping. After heroic haggling with the resident Japanese militarists, General Ho was expected to announce this week a "new status" for North China, ambiguous and unsatisfactory to all concerned. Fresh Japanese brandishing of Might was expected to follow...
...Conrad's earnings from his 13 published works amounted to less than ?5. Among English writers who took themselves, their ideas and art with great solemnity, the young Shaw appeared as a wild man, a 27-year-old Irishman who "had nailed the Red Flag to his chin," and who made a name for himself merely by asking "the most unusual questions" at stodgy public discussions. Maurois briefly recounts the major events of Shaw's career, does not point out the significance of his victories over one after another of his rivals. When William Archer agreed to collaborate...
...have plots. This one is mostly about Eleanor Powell and a producer, Robert Taylor. She went to school with him, but when she comes to New York for a job on the stage she forgets to give him the sign of the goat (waving of the fingers underneath the chin); so he doesn't recognize her. But does she finally get her big chance? In the last shot are they embracing behind a bush? She does. They...
Boiled Miss Barrymore, digging her nails into the young woman's chin: "The hell I can't, you little wart! . . . You little rat! ... You little bitch...