Word: chins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Troop Trouper. Hope has a chin like a snowplow, a nose that led Comic Fred Allen to describe him as "ski-snoot," and a trigger wit that produces a crop of studio stories with every Hope picture. This time, the first day on the set Hope took one look at Miss Lamour's fulsome costume-suit, blouse, stockings, etc.-and exclaimed: "For heaven's sakes, Dorothy, why don't you go home and take something off?" One sequence required him to kiss heavily lipsticked Dorothy three times. When the make-up man brought him a mirror, Hope...
...second platoon moved forward a land mine accidentally exploded in the face of a young lieutenant. He stopped a second, then crawled on with blood dripping from his chin. (Wounds: painful but minor.) Said he to another file: "Please look out for my rifle, will...
...remarkable book (Histoire de I'Armée Allemande depuis I'Armistice) by Jacques Benoist-Méchin on the German Army revealed the conditions under which Germany had been living since the previous war, her despair, her sufferings, her will to revenge, her work, her success. . . . In France we ignored all that. . . . Munich was the basest of capitulations...
...Fleet-fisted but flat-faced Beau Jack, illiterate 21-year-old Negro: the world's lightweight boxing championship; by a right uppercut to the chin of Tippy Larkin, No. 1 contender for the title recently abdicated (because of bad hands) by Champion Sammy Angott; in the third round of a scheduled 15-rounder; at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Protégé of Bobby Jones and 21 other members of the Augusta National Golf Club, where he used to work as shoeshine boy, Beau Jack got his crack at the title by knocking out Allie Stolz...
...come for some time," officials declared. "He has a real scientific interest, and not just a curiosity." First contact with the University for the professional wrestler was early in his career, when anthropologists measured him. Among other things, they found that the distance from his forehead to his chin is 22 inches...