Word: chins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blaik: Last week when we lost to Princeton I said that it was the toughest defeat we ever took since I've come to Dartmouth. We out-gained the Tigers six to one and still took it on the chin when Allerdice kept hitting the bull's-eye with his passes. Our pass defense was much better against Cornell, and, of course, the weather didn't help their passes...
...more notable howls of dramatic history rose in the '903-a farce written by an English actor who knew his trade. It still holds fourth place for consecutive performances (1,466 during its original London run), after Tobacco Road, Abie's Irish Rose, Chu-Chin-Chow. But it has been played oftener, all told, than any drama except Hamlet, was once presented simultaneously by 44 companies, has been translated into at least 20 languages, is the only play that has been rendered and acted in Esperanto. A great dramatic monument is Charley's Aunt...
...mild-mannered, chin-bearded little man who said those words in 1917 was Cartoonist Louis Raemaekers (rhymes with ma-mockers). A half-German Dutchman, Cartoonist Raemaekers "wrote" (his own word) charcoal drawings which stirred the world to fury against the brut ish Hun. He just didn't like Germans. When he arrived in Manhattan in 1917 to propagandize and work for Hearstpapers, Raemaekers said quietly: "It would be better - I know it is impossible, but still it would be better- if all the Germans could be wiped off the face of the earth...
Last month, when Germany unleashed her real air attack on Britain, she led with her chin in reckless massed raids of as many as 1,800 planes per day. Last week she showed that she had learned caution, punched craftily at Great Britain with not more than 1,000 planes in action each 24 hours, sent over in successive sections of 50 or 60 (two squadrons of 27, plus a few heavy Junkers 89 four-motored bombers...
...Land of the Afternoon"-a train pulled this week, the rear car of which was painted service khaki. It carried the U. S. members of the Joint Defense Council. Photographers asked Fiorello LaGuardia to stand on the car steps and wave his huge hat, but the mayor put his chin down, refused to pose, and rebuked them: "This isn't exactly a joy ride...