Word: chins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he was learning his trade 15 years ago writing TIME'S Books section, and turning out some poetry and an occasional novel of his own, one of Matthews' novels moved a fellow critic to begin his review as follows: "Thomas Stanley Matthews, 30, has a chin that sticks out from under a nose, eye, and brow that might have belonged to St. Paul, patron saint of his preparatory school (Concord...
...Queen has a very round figure with the small ankles and slim lower legs of a woman who would rather eat than bother with her weight. I feel safe in saying that her wardrobe is unimaginative. I'll just add that she avoids a very definite double chin by holding her head well...
...trouble was twofold: they had neither chosen too wisely nor performed too well. Playing Chekhov in another language must always discolor him a little; and to offer U.S. audiences a perceptibly British version of Chekhov is to discolor him further. Moreover, the reserved and chin-up British are not entirely at home with the soul and the samovar...
Gypsy Rose Lee, dressed to the chin, prim as a nanny and starchy as a duchess, took the air in Chicago's Lincoln Park with Son Eric nestled in a "cuddleseat," gave her public something new to goggle...
...Thomas Beecham, chin-whiskered conductor of the London Philharmonic, who sounds off at the drop of a demiquaver, steamed into the port of Southampton from his latest U.S. junket, and sounded off: "Hollywood is a universal disaster compared to which Hitler, Himmler and Mussolini were trivial and fleeting incidents. . . . All the arts in America are a gigantic racket run by unscrupulous men for unhealthy women...