Word: chins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...serves Lobbyist Taylor has the best possible priestly attributes. In private life he loves his little luxuries (lobster Newburg, pastries, pies & cakes), but he never drinks a drop. His vestments are spats, a snap-brim hat, a walking stick. His aspect is impressive, a fine broad forehead, a jutting chin, sharp eyes, hair steely grey. His manner is positive bravado, his voice stentorian, his cigars black. His apostolic jewels are a magnificent row of decorations: from the U. S. a Silver Star (citation in orders); from France, the bronze Medal of Verdun and the cross of the Legion of Honor...
...Patiently up & down his palace courtyard Bulgaria's irrepressible Tsar Boris wheeled the royal baby carriage. Bored, he wheeled it through the palace gates and out on the streets of Sofia. Stopping every few feet to chuck his gurgling baby daughter Marie Louise under the chin, he pushed briskly on through crowds of startled subjects, made a circuit of the Capital streets, trundled back to the palace...
...George Gershwin: "Long head, shoe-box type. Profile extremely Hittite. Sarsaparilla coloring and a musical haircomb, blown out a bit over ears. Flat cheeks, ironed out, sweeping aggressively into bulging lip and chin. Unanalytical eyes beneath dramatic brows. Smugly aggressive mouth, insensitive, without dubiety. Good-humored, self-confident, able and limited...
...three famed Langhorne sisters of Virginia. Sister Irene, Artist Gibson married. Sister Nancy married Lord Astor, now sits in the House of Commons. Sister Nora is the present Mrs. "Lefty" Flynn. The Gibson Man wearing the stiff straw hat and a high collar up to his bulbous chin was a fairly accurate portrait of Richard Harding Davis...
...lean, ebullient girl with a long, inquisitive nose and an assertive chin. Born in Canada, educated in California, naturalized a U. S. citizen, she has studied the violin for four years in Germany. With her German-born mother and younger sister, she has roamed the fringes of Berlin's international society, having a lovely time, not in the least shy of discussing her opinions of Nazi Germany with all comers. She wrote little articles and translations for a few German papers voicing what she called "honest criticism about this or that." She dashed off long chatty letters...