Word: chins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strong chin of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, with the cigaret-holder slanting rakishly upward above a cloven bulb that is the delight of world cartoonists, last week took a series of blows such as no President of the U. S. ever suffered and survived. The blows would not, of course, have fallen had Mr. Roosevelt not stuck his chin out farther than any President since Woodrow Wilson. He could have seen the attack coming had he not blinded himself to the meaning of the last Congressional election. Fighter that he is, it is doubtful that he would have withdrawn his chin...
...About Town (Paramount) was before the cameras when its star, Jack Benny, was convicted of cheating the U. S. Government of duty on trinkets for his wife. Paramount's chin-up reply to this embarrassing publicity was to hold a world premiere of the film in Waukegan, Ill., where Comedian Benny was born Benjamin Kubelsky 45 years ago. The film, another Jack Benny performance of his standard screen personality, a garrulous, cigar-chewing gull ready to be talked into anything once, is almost an exculpation in itself...
...Conklin rubbed his chin, named her Mary. She is now Mrs. Samuel Masland, wife of a Towson, Md. electrical contractor...
...film) is five-year-old John Sheffield, son of English Actor Reginald Sheffield, who once had Noel Coward for an understudy. Starting out as a 4-lb. incubator baby, little Tarzan has been undergoing special, muscle-building courses of sprouts since he was two, learning to chin himself, perform athletic improbabilities and ignore fear...
Leggy Jessie Matthews used to sing and high kick reel after reel. In Climbing High she sings little, dances less, takes on her unobtrusive chin a custard pie and a messier plot. Britain reports that Jessie intends quitting cinema for good, sticking to the musicomedy stage...