Word: chins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Small, shy, stooped like a tired schoolmaster, Glubb Bey (his Arab title) graduated first in his class from Woolwich Royal Military Academy. Son of a major general, he knew his war business, went to France in World War I as a sapper. There he received a chin wound which later inspired Arabs to nickname him Abu Huneik (Man with the Small Jaw). In 1920 he was sent to Mesopotamia; he has remained there, except for a few short trips, ever since. Before World War II, if he was not living quietly with his wife in a native-style house...
Last week theaters were open until ten, packing their houses with Chu Chin Chow,* Hello, America, Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit, the Russian opera and ballet-altogether ten musical shows, six plays. Patrons could go home to clean, comfortable shelters or into tubes accom modating 20 millions. Cabbies were thankful for a sixpence. Hotel lounges brightened at the reappearance of formal gowns, mink and ermine wraps. The Queen and Princesses Christmas-shopped at Fortnum & Mason's. The emu was content...
Playing against South Carolina three weeks ago, Sinkwich had his jaw broken on one side, cracked on the other. With his jaws wired, his chin in a sling and his breathing so impaired that he required trips to the sidelines for whiffs of oxygen, Sinkwich played for three quarters of last fortnight's game against Mississippi, threw a pass that tied the score, 14-to-14. Last week, against Columbia, Sinkwich played for nearly 60 minutes, scored the touchdown that licked the Lions, 7-to-3. "He can do everything but bite into a steak," moaned Columbia...
...YORK--After five round of deliberate stalking, heavyweight Joe Louis exploded a straight right punch on Lou Nova's chin that blasted the California challenger's dreams and readled him for the technical knockout that came one second before the end of the sixth round in their title fight at the Polo Grounds tonight...
...songs were recorded in Manhattan by a Netherlands-born fighter in the Spanish Civil War, Bart van der Schelling. He wears his chin in a brace, is called "official singer" for the U.S. survivors of the International Brigades of the Loyalists. Singer van der Schelling is backed by an "Exiles Chorus" directed by Earl Robinson (Ballad for Americans). Some of the songs-the Spanish Joven Guardia, the Italian Guardia Rossa, the German Thaelmann-Bataillon, the French Au Devant de la Vie (music by Soviet Composer Dmitri Shostakovich)-were composed during the Spanish War. Most of them are in rough, plodding...