Word: chins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...panel was the great grin of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. On the President's shoulder perched a vulture. In one hand the President held a fishing rod with a sucker on the line, in the other a bouquet of microphones. Mrs. Roosevelt stood beside him, her teeth and chin cruelly caricatured. The New Deal was represented by scattered playing cards?all deuces. Elliott Roosevelt and Anna Roosevelt Dall were seen tossing their respective spouses, portrayed as dolls, into a trash basket...
Died. Charles Bancroft Dillingham, 66, theatrical producer; of arteriosclerosis; in Manhattan. In 36 years he produced more than 200 plays (Mlle Modiste, Chin-Chin, Blossom Time, Sunny, The Last of Mrs. Cheyney). In 1914 he took over Manhattan's big Hippodrome where he installed skating rinks, swimming tanks, staged extravagant spectacles with skating, diving, aerial ballets. Headliners who first appeared on the Hippodrome stage included Annette Kellerman, Anna Pavlova, Gaby Deslys...
Smack! The Storm Trooper swung a left to Mr. Lepawsky's chin, knocked him back. But unlike most U. S. citizens attacked by Nazis, Messrs. Jones & Lepawsky beat no retreat. Instead, as soon as Delegate Lepawsky could recover, they rushed to the head of the marching column, demanded satisfaction from the Storm Troop Commander...
...Thompson, Seattle has always been a capital of toxophily. Last year a 17-year-old Seattle high-school boy named Ralph Miller nosed out famed Russell Hoogerhyde, three times U. S. Champion, for the title. Last week, at Storrs, Miller jumped into the lead at the start. Shooting methodically, chin up, feet 12 in. apart, Hoogerhyde caught up with him the fourth day by breaking a record with 722 points for a single American round (90 arrows at distances of 60, 50, and 40 yd.). Day later. Hoogerhyde had: record scores for single and double American rounds, for single York...
When a woman with a great beak of a nose (macrorrhinia) and no more chin than a rabbit (microgenia), pays a plastic surgeon to beautify her, the obvious procedure would be for the surgeon to graft upon the chin what he removes from the nose. However, the logic of such an operation seems to have occurred to only one plastic surgeon in all the last decade's welter of face-cutting. Dr. Gustave Aufricht of Manhattan, who has transferred 21 big noses to 21 little chins, last week laid claim to this originality in the American Journal of Surgery...