Word: chins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...writing humorous sketches for Russian newspapers. Before that he had been a soldier. Tsarist against the Germans, a Red artilleryman against the Whites. Now in Moscow (he was born in Odessa) he has beaten his sword into one of Russia's most trenchantly successful pens. Sharp of nose, chin, ear and eye, with black hair dipping into an acute widow's peak, Kataev is 36, just about the right age for a New Russian. His earlier book (The Embezzlers ) was written with such humorous disregard of officialdom that U. S. readers wondered about Russia's censorship...
Representative headlines are "Big-Shot Life Not All Gravy; 'Campus Heat' Gets Too Hot"; "What About Repeal, Will Administration Lead With Its Chin?"; and "Local Sports Critics a Couple of Monday Pool-Room Coaches...
...Oriental locutions or ceremonial incantations; the narrative is written even more simply than the famed Tale of Genji (TIME, July 3). Shui Hu Chuan's Chinese manners are polite: each of its 70 chapters begins, "It is said:" ends in some such manner as. "How then did Shih Chin and the three chieftains escape? Pray hear it told in the next chapter...
...nine rounds Loughran stepped away from Sharkey, repeatedly flicking his opponent's face with light jabs which did no damage. In the tenth Sharkey wearily floundered into a stiff right which caught him squarely on the chin. He dropped flat on his face-the first knockdown Loughran had scored in years. He was on his feet before the referee could start to count, attacked Loughran's body savagely for the remaining five rounds, but that one punch cost Sharkey the fight. Two judges disagreed; the referee cast the deciding vote for Loughran because of the knockdown...
...Herbert Bayard Swope,† chin pointed up, looked exactly like the youth that kept saying 'Excelsior' on his way through the Alpine village, only more earnest, fiery and brave...