Word: chins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inspired Vacuity. The Phaidon Velazquez reproduces 13 of the painter's immortalizations of his royal master's vacuous stare, massy chin and handlebar mustachios which at night he kept in perfumed leather cases. There is also an inspired side show of infantas, royal dwarfs, idiots, buffoons and a little gallery of Velazquez' early, almost photographic genre pictures done in his precourt days when Velazquez used to brag: "I would rather be the first of the vulgar painters than the second of the refined ones." In strong contrast are a number of the passionless religious paintings of which...
They argue that chinchilla has been off the market for so long that it is virtually a new fur, and has to resell itself. But many a furrier doubts that it will. Chin chilla fur is so perishable - and so valuable - that some owners have kept their coats in cold storage, brought them out only on state occasions. Ranchers say that the new "chins" are tougher, point out that most chinchilla coats in existence have already lasted 20 to 30 years. But, as one skeptical furrier cracked last week: "We have more people who want to sell chinchillas than want...
...Polish folk song in the middle of the performance. When a visiting Polish Pestka (WAC) was moved to tears, a portly, white-haired man seated beside her spoke sympathetically: "I expect Poland to be free again." After the show he stopped the Pestka, shook her hand, urged: "Keep your chin up." Gratefully, she asked if she might know his name. "Of course. It's Hoover-Herbert Hoover...
...stooping over the food on the bench, eating very much in the manner of a ravenous animal. . . . Now he lifted his head, and Frossia saw a face as flawlessly chiseled as any she had ever imagined, skin and muscle clothing perfect bone work of chin, cheek and forehead. The straight thin nose, the large sherry-colored eyes ... all suggested breeding. Yet the mouth hung loosely, the eyes were twin pools of despair, and now that they were looking at her, something like a sneer crept into them...
...first battalion inspection is now behind us. (O.K. Mac, you can breathe out now.) Many new and interesting things were discovered. 1. Shoes can actually be shined by polishing. 2. That is a whisker on the foremost outcropping of your chin. Lt. Salmon said it was. 3. Ties and trousers are not to be worn at half-mast even if your Aunt Bessle...