Word: chins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swank Bar Harbor he married Laura Jay Wurts, daughter of Alexander Jay Wurts, Carnegie Tech professor and Westinghouse inventor, and great-great-great granddaughter of John Jay (1745-1829), the first Chief Justice of the U.S. Wiped out in the Bull Market Crash and "fed up to the chin with the Depression and the miasma that was enveloping Washington," Galloper Chandler in 1931 took his wife and two small daughters and galloped off to Europe. A student of Naziism since 1927, he was received ten years later at Nuremberg by the most successful man in the world...
Delivery. In Muskegon, Mich., Charlie Chin smelled an odor unlike a wet washing, scampered to the basement of his laundry, found himself knee deep in 1,600 gallons of fuel oil that a confused truckman had piped...
...merely as a licensing body, views with alarm its New Dealish tendency to use the power to license as a power to reform. Should Senator White introduce a reorganization bill before FCC goes to work on the publishers, the Commission may find itself too busy covering its own chin to throw any punches at the publishers...
...must have been keenly aware of that fact one morning last week when he stretched a tentative toe into his green-tinted bathtub, while he gazed at his face with its little mustache and flopping hair, as he covered his chin with lather (at the Berghof the great dictator is his own barber), while he sipped his Chinese tea, spooned his porridge and chewed his morning toast covered with a mountain...
...country is about to approach the cross at the end of its rosary. I see on that cross not the old man, not the man who has chin whiskers, with stripes on his trousers. . . . I see through him a young man just pausing on the threshold of his life. I see through him, gibbeted there, a red-blooded youth, the youth of my country, the blood of my nation, the blood of civilization. I look through the old man, Uncle Sam, outstretched upon the gibbet, and I see his son not given an opportunity to be crucified but only given...