Word: chins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feature of the occasion in his smart naval uniform was my longtime friend Hobart Chatfield-Taylor of Chicago and Santa Barbara. At the gala performance at the Metropolitan Opera House in passing down one of the circular side staircases the exuberant "Princess Alice" just missed hitting me in the chin when she displayed the dreadful bracelet with his portrait as the War Lord, which Kaiser sent to that vivacious young lady. Miss Roosevelt said to her escort, "See what the Kaiser has sent...
When the ball finally appeared, the Cantabrigians gallantly took the field ready to do or die. For an hour the young ladies took it on the chin and shin before the steam roller tactics of the Harvard forwards. The Dunsterian's ability to run faster finally brought victory, although there was some question as to the legality of the tallies made since the rules were hard to enforce. It was thought that four goals had been scored by the Dunster team while Winsor was known to have scored only...
...nearby National Museum Building will come another plaster figure to join the silent party. It will be a long-legged model probably dressed in Eleanor Blue and posed to suggest energy, cheer, simplicity. The face, which in the living original is dominated by a generous, tooth-filled mouth, receding chin and warm, humorous eyes, will be indistinguishable from the faces of all the other First Ladies. For Sculptor William H. Egberts of the Smithsonian avoids arguments with friends, relatives and the subjects themselves by giving all the Presidents' wives the face of Frances Pierce Connelly's bust...
...officer "asked me not to ask questions." Finally while in Europe Mrs. Busby was notified that the estate was a total loss. Back she came to see Mr. Traylor. The best comfort that he could offer was: "Well, Esther, you'll have to take it on the chin like the rest...
...cause of peace has taken a great many hard rights to the chin recently, but the cruelest swipe of all was to have Arthur Henderson, president of the world Disarmament Conference, lose faith in the good will of the nations assembled. For years Uncle Arthur has maintained that universal reduction of arms was within a reasonable stretch of the hand and would undoubtedly be reached by Monday, at the latest on Tuesday. And after each successive defent of his proposals and everybody else's proposals, he would bob up again with encouraging plans for new round-table meetings, finding...