Word: chins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Willie rubbed his fat chin, said nothing...
Punchinello LaGuardia led with his chin again last week, this time got it punched by various assorted clergymen. As the country's Civilian Defense Director, New York City's Mayor asked all pastors, priests and rabbis to preach on religious freedom and democracy next Sunday, enclosed a pretty fair 1,500-word "outline" of the sort of sermon he hoped for. In a nation where Church and State are constitutionally separate, the mere suggestion made numerous ministers mad. Maddest was Editor Charles Clayton Morrison of the arch-isolationist Christian Century...
...Graceful English Leonora Corbett romps amusingly as the twitting first wife; Peggy Wood (Old Acquaintance) huffs expertly as the twitted second one; and Mildred Natwick (Missouri Legend) plays the medium-who in her trances is wild-eyed as a witch on a broomstick, in her waking moments hearty and chin-up as a Girl Guide leader -with prodigious humor and bounce...
...General albums). In the former, the vagrant, gusty Almanackers toss off Blow the Man Down, Blow Ye Winds High-O, etc. The other set is a random survey of such Americana as Ground Hog ("Up comes Sal with a snicker and a grin, Ground Hog grease all over her chin...
...Frank Cohen is no production man, but he knows how to get men who are. He had originally staffed his little plant on the Schuylkill by going direct to various "40-Plus Clubs," groups of chin-up engineers and mechanics who thus advertised the reason they were out of work. In expanding for the British order, Cohen next hired instructors from the Delehanty Institute to train the raw labor he picked up. When he opened the West Pittston Iron Works (near Wilkes-Barre) to machine steel plates, 343 of the 350 men hired were from the coal mines. They went...