Word: chins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Capitol reporters who knew his mettle and had heard him off the record had long marveled at the patience with which "Joe" Robinson had borne for two years the antics of the senior Senator from Louisiana. That patience now came abruptly to an end. Sticking out his pugnacious chin, Senator Robinson rose and bellowed his rage...
Tremont: "Affairs of Cellini," and "Chu Chin Chow." Continuous...
...show ran 18 months in New York, won a Pulitzer Prize, and after 1,652 performances in 203 towns in 39 States and one Canadian province which grossed approximately $3,000,000, returns to Manhattan this week to celebrate the fifth anniversary of its première. Chu Chin Chow, which opened in London in 1916 and closed three years after the Armistice, ran long enough (2,238 performances) for practically every soldier in the Allied armies to have seen it. Abie's Irish Rose, which got to be a national habit, played 2,532 performances in New York...
...actress named Jessie Ralph performs magnificently as Nurse Peggotty, who comforts David when his mother dies and cares for his household when he marries. As Peggotty's brother Dan, who sets out to avenge Little Emily when David's friend Steerforth betrays her, Lionel Barrymore wears the chin whiskers of a Yarmouth fisherman. David's widowed mother (Elizabeth Allen); Mr. Murdstone (Basil Rathbone) who marries her, frightens her to death and packs David off to earn his living; violent Aunt Betsey (Edna May Oliver), who befriends David and beats such visitors as ride donkeys to her Dover...
Which is to say the difference between a man and a hen. . . . Pep is something that makes a man straighten up, throw out his chest, stick out his chin, and do things. ... It brightens his wits. It sharpens his tongue. It creates sunshine all around...