Word: chins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London's ire was John Cudahy's implicit plea to Great Britain to weaken its blockade, to the U. S. to press the British to do so. Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles had Washington correspondents in for a press conference, tucked in his chin, lit into his old friend John Cudahy in the strongest terms that diplomatic law allows...
...Duchess of Windsor is 44 years old, has a large mole on the right side of her chin and jowls that are beginning to sag. Last week, as the royal pair sailed for the Bahamas, Manhattan newspapers reported that the Duchess would stop in the U. S. for a plastic operation on her face. Whether she intended to have her mole clipped, her nose cropped or her face lifted, no one could say. She had reputedly engaged rooms at Manhattan's Wickersham Hospital for the second week in September. Her surgeon was to be Dr. Irving Daniel Shorell...
...sagging muscles, thus leave their patients with a masklike expression. Face-lifting is done under a local anesthetic, lasts about an hour and a half, is practically bloodless. Patients usually leave the hospital in four days, some of them wearing hats with veils or scarves tied under the chin to hide the scars. Only painful part of the operation is the bill, which may run anywhere from a few hundred dollars to $25,000, depending on what a patient can afford...
...loss of life, but both rose inevitably as the official daily tallies of shot-down German raiders rose from a half-dozen to a dozen, then to a score. Germany was trying to "soften up" Britain, apparently in preparation for real mass attack, then for invasion. Britain's chin went up & out as she refused to admit "softening...
...English producers have made any plans for new productions; the only fresh play in sight is Women Aren't Angels, a bawdy farce due to leave the suburbs for London this week. More & more producers have turned to revivals of old box-office certainties like Chu-Chin-Chow. Be fore an audience of men in soft shirts, women carrying gas masks, that old historic spectacle last week made its 2,239th performance. Oldsters were disappointed in Lyn Harding's performance in Chu-Chin-Chow, said it didn't stack up with that of beefy Oscar Asche...