Word: chins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...figure-composition first prize with his Ezra Davenport, a portrait of a stolid York-state farmer. Second in this category was Mrs. Anna Tenggren, Artist, painted by her friend Elmer Brubeck, who employed a peculiar baboon blue in the delineation of Mrs. Tenggren's mouth and chin...
...spectacle of Mr. William Hodge in a bedroom farce will come as a great surprise to his enthusiastic admirers. Long have they been used to seeing him in dramas which rigidly observed, if indeed they did not extol, the principles of virtuous conduct. Now he appears as a chin-whiskered but frisky California lawyer who arrives in Manhattan bent on giving his wife grounds 'for divorce (among other things, she demolished his excellent wine cellar). His method involves a hotel room and a hired trollop, with whom he retires in full view of the audience. The farcical exploits...
...shoddy, shifty reputation which was confirmed when he was convicted of a huge conspiracy against the Dry law and sent to Atlanta Penitentiary for three years. He emerged in 1928. Six feet tall, weighing 200 Ibs., Means has a bullet head, small bright eyes, an ingratiating smile, a round chin underhung with a fat neck. His ethics as an Investigator (his capitalization) are repugnant to ordinary citizens...
During the years 1914 to 1922, some 900 boys attended The Hill School at Pottstown, Pa. There, as their headmaster, they knew an erect, square-shouldered young man with crisp, rufous hair, square chin, and wide blue eyes that combined the attentiveness of a scholar, the vigilance of a martinet, the red-veined nervousness of a stallion. Boys, now men. who remember those eyes and the wide mouth that always trembled when it was trying to be most deliberate, know that Dwight Raymond Meigs was a combination of strong forces. "The King." the boys called him, some in fear, some...
...Sonnenberg, wrestler whose favorite "hold" is a football tackle, billed as champion of the world in some states: a bout with Henri De Glane, French heavyweight, who left the ring bleeding profusely from both ears, with his chin cut, several broken ribs, concussion of the brain...