Word: chins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like the 23 candidates for initiation who had preceded him, 20-year-old Robert Perry of Harrisburg, Ill. was blindfolded and stripped. His chin, belly, groin and legs were daubed with a coating of lampblack and collodion. Then he was made to lie down on a table and, while voices taunted him with horrible threats, one of the brothers stood ready to give him a mild shock in the crotch with an induction coil charged by two dry-cell batteries...
...House was droning through its debate on the manpower bill. Many a black-leather seat was vacant, many a Congressional chin rested in a Congressional palm, when Michigan's veteran John D. Dingell got the floor to make a brief speech on another subject. He spoke of "the rising tide of resentment and criticism among veterans of World War II because of the issuance of an indistinct, cheap, and unworthy discharge button. . ." Afterwards the debate on manpower went...
...hour later the accommodating Kelly stood up. Solemnly he orated: "There is a rising tide of resentment and criticism, etc., etc." Word for word, it was the Dingell speech. No Congressional chin left a Congressional palm; the House heard it through again without recognizing it. Reporter Phillips was popeyed...
...weather is not all that is bitter in Boston. A case of mistaken identity found a well-placed blow thrust at the chin of innocent by-stander Ron Holain, and Ohio's own is nursing a morning after chin. "Next time I'll pick a fight," quock our hero as he regained his feet. The oldest man in the world, M. C. Smith, originally dubbed "Smitty" by his 69-year-old brother, had a joyous ranchy (spelled "rancid") week end in the company of many Chase Hall stalwarts including Dave Staff and Milcap's one man gang, Bill Stark...
...conspicuously absent from the Los Angeles courtroom when Miss Berry's bush-browed Lawyer Joseph Scott, 77, roared his final plea to the jury. Samples: "This pestiferous, lecherous hound. . . . I'm sorry he isn't here so I could . . . hand it to him right on the chin. . . . Did you ever hear the story of Svengali and Trilby? This fellow is just a little runt of a Svengali. He's not even a monster . . . just a little runt. . . . This fellow doesn't lie like a gentleman. He lies like a cheap Cockney cad. ... That man goes...