Word: chins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Guests and Hosts. The sergeant, a squat Pennsylvanian with a blackly bearded chin and soft black eyes, said that if I'd come out to his jeep I could have some fried potatoes and coffee. As I walked out, I became aware that we were guests. The family whose house the troop had taken was seated in a thickly walled and ceilinged room on the ground level. A young girl, perhaps 15, sat perfectly still and rigid, stretched out in an armchair. As I stepped across her legs, she did not move or speak. All her words were...
...professional adventurer whose resourcefulness and cunning are limited only by the extent of the script writer's familiarity with some of the old Douglas Fairbanks pictures. When the spurious prince sets out to seduce the queen of the dancing girls (Marlene Dietrich), he chucks her roguishly under the chin, calls her "my lady of the moonlight," and describes the lyric delights of life in his mythical kingdom. When he wishes to fool the ruthless Grand Vizier (Edward Arnold), he shoplifts the necessary royal satins, arrives in court prepared to pluck the richest plums in Araby...
Last week Canadian newspapers carried the most inept recruiting advertisement yet printed. It showed a young man frowning, chin in hand. The text screamed: "Have I got the 'Guts'? Ask yourself this question. One look in your mirror will give you the answer. Am I man or mouse...
Suitable Match. Outside the Stadium entrances, in the long perambulatory corridor, the cardboard placards mounted on poles (a blown-up Dewey photograph; Dewey the People's Choice; Dewey Witt Win) were piled in chin-high clumps. They were the same nononsense, black-lettered placards which had decorated the sober-looking Dewey headquarters at the Stevens Hotel for two days. Delegates who had visited the businesslike headquarters to look in awe at the machinelike efficiency of the Dewey staff had already seen them...
Dawley took it on the chin, maintained a soldierly silence, worked hard. Last week he was promoted to the rank of brigadier general. Insiders said that one reason he was on the comeback road was that the disciplinary action against him may have been a bit hasty...