Word: chins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lecture hall, even though her arm is broken when an enemy aviator topples a piece of the Empire State Building on her. She is heckled and hooted, her house ransacked. Her son, her disciple, finally swells out his chest, lumps his throat a bit, hides it with a firm chin, and goes off to war in an aeroplane...
...passing of the petticoat was the passing of Boldini's art. He lived to be 88. Too purblind to paint, he could still drink champagne and chuck pretty young models under the chin. In 1929, aged 86, he suddenly married. At his wedding breakfast he made a little speech: "It is not my fault if I am so old, it's something which has happened to me all at once...
Instantly President Roosevelt, without hat or overcoat in the chill wind, swung around to the crowd before him, launched vigorously into his inaugural address. His easy smile was gone. His large chin was thrust out defiantly as if at some invisible, insidious foe. A challenge rang in his clear strong voice. For 20 vibrant minutes he held his audience, seen and unseen, under a strong spell. Only occasionally was he interrupted by cheers & applause...
Young Boettcher's return set airplanes, radio cars and volunteer posses scouring the northern Colorado and southern Wyoming countryside in a hunt for the kidnappers. Meanwhile Denver, stroked its chin over reports of the young broker's slowness in paying large gambling debts. Declared the Rocky Mountain News: "The story of the victim is to say the least unusual. . . . Certainly many aspects of the case need clearing...
...welterweight championship three years ago, lost it to young Jack Thompson, won it back last year from Lou Brouillard. Corbett, flat-nosed, dark-haired, stocky, confident because he had beaten Fields once when the championship was not at stake, started the fight with a left to the chin that backed Fields against the ropes. Then for five rounds he executed a strategic retreat, peppering Fields with a right jab and a left cross when the champion, forcing the fight as a champion should, charged in with his head low, swinging both hands. The referee, Lieutenant Jack Kennedy...