Word: chins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...floor, heaved them into the ring, pulled down draperies, ripped out telephones. The riot lasted for a full half hour, ended only when Browning and Savoldi decided to defy the curfew and return to the mat. After another half hour, Savoldi flew feet first at Browning's chin (the "drop-kick"), missed, crashed on his back. Browning fell on him, won the match. Next day the Commission formally repealed its curfew order...
...very bridal night finds more alluring divertissement than his wife," in the words of his councillor; his wife quite wisely lives at the other end of the kingdom. When an American movie star arrives on the scene just as the king is having the fungus on his chin shorn by the court barber, the king discovers the star to be his double, and goes off to Paris, leaving the actor on his throne. The new king popularizes the government by radio broadcasts of his crooning, and incidentally brings the wife back to the fold. I don't remember just...
...mockery of actors, film directors, newspaper critics. In Hollywood hiding from New York police, Quigley gets a film bit as an Indian chief, becomes a star by subscribing to a stamp-bureau which sends him fan mail from all over the world. Tired of bashing his ladies on the chin. Cagney in this picture drags Myra (Mae Clarke) out of bed by the hair, hurls her twelve feet down a corridor...
...John Daniel Hertz is keen, amiable, modest but, in a business tussle, a ferocious fighter. It bothers him not a whit that on a polo field in his heavy tortoise-shell spectacles, with his helmet snugly strapped under his big chin, and seated in a curious grey, woolly saddle, he cuts a strange figure. When he misses a shot, which is often, he always shouts...
...Toronto's "Ace" Bailey. When Bailey's head hit the ice, everyone in the Boston Garden could hear the thud. While Bailey's teammates carried him to the dressing room, twitching and writhing with a fractured skull, Horner whizzed up to Shore, whammed him on the chin, knocked him unconscious. It took seven stitches to put Shore's scalp together. Few minutes later a bespectacled spectator in an excited crowd around the dressing-room door was punched in the eye. Connie Smythe, Maple Leaf manager, was arrested for that...