Word: chins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Polo Grounds, Manhattan, Eligio ("Kid Chocolate") Sardinias, jaunty 128-lb. Cuban Negro who has won 167 fights, turned around as the whistle blew and led a flashy jab at the chin of Jack ("Kid") Berg, 135-lb. cockney...
Waldorf, Viscount Astor, better known as the husband of Nancy, Lady Astor, M. P., appeared last week before the Royal Commission on Licensing to give his expert testimony on the "condition of drinking" in Britain. "The most recent development in drinking," said Lord Astor stroking his chin, "has been the use of cocktails. It is a new habit, and I may add that it is apparently growing. It is a habit that has been created by private enterprise because there is money in cocktails...
...After four and a half centuries," said Dr. Charcot to eager Italian correspondents at Paris, "we are just beginning to be able to draw a picture of what Columbus looked like. He was taller than average. He had a long face and a long aquiline nose. His dimpled chin showed strength of character. His cheeks were like red apples, but his grey eyes were wells of emotion. His whole face was freckled, and by 30 he was totally grey...
...always interesting and sometimes startling question of what Mr. George Washington Hill and his American Tobacco Co. are likely to do next was last week answered when Lucky Strike's ''future shadow." suddenly expanded from the chin in which it originated and spread over the entire figure, monstrous, ominous, and exaggerated even to advertising's nth degree. For a long time the public had been accustomed to seeing, in Lucky, advertisements, a picture of a single-chinned man or woman casting a fat and double-chinned shadow, the moral being that by much smoking instead...
...Insurance Co., director of many another potent company, business partner of New Jersey's Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen (this year a Wet candidate for the Senate). Mr. Jameson was the largest individual contributor ($172,800) to the Hoover campaign (TIME, April 28). Squarejawed, tightlipped, with a big dimple in his chin, Mr. Jameson has grey-fringed black hair, a close-cropped black mustache, wears sparkling pince-nez before placid grey eyes. Spruce and good looking, he refused to be photographed because, he said, he was "not good looking enough." The tale he told the committee concerned how he had played what...