Word: chins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surging Finlandia. Much moved, Finn Heimo Haitto (pronounced hay-moe high-toe) sat down and wrote his good friend Sibelius all about it. Last week the boy had more to tell the old composer. Again bare-kneed, and sailorcollared, Heimo Haitto tucked a Guarnerius fiddle under his beardless chin, made his bigtime U. S. debut with Ormandy and the orchestra in the plushy Academy of Music. Critics liked his easy, self-assured playing, could well believe that Sibelius had said of him: "This youngster will carry on the tradition of Finnish music...
Next day in Amsterdam, Netherlands Foreign Minister Eelco Nicholas van Kieffens, an extraordinarily thin man with big nose, little chin, thin hair, hollow eyes, called in Japan's Minister to The Netherlands Itaro Ishii and told him that The Netherlands Indies wanted no protection from anybody, thanks just the same. But meantime Jean Charles Pabst, Netherlands Minister to Japan, called on Mr. Arita to thank him for upholding the status quo. These contradictions were not the reaction Mr. Arita was most interested in hearing. That came two days later...
...hand for the celebration was the chief character of the Barn Dance, spry, crackly-voiced, cotton-chin-whiskered Uncle Ezra (dapper little Pat Barrett, 52), who greets the audience with "Howdy, evvabuddy," warms evvabuddy's heart with his cracker-barrel philosophy. Uncle Ezra was in Hollywood, to play in Bob Burns's forthcoming Comin' 'Round the Mountain. So Widow Winnie Whipple, whose ineffectual attempts to land Uncle Ezra furnish continuity of a sort for the program, exclaimed "Hollywood my left hind foot!" and wept that he should turn out to be "nothin...
...desert. Even within the sacred confines of the Yard, the unfortunate myth of Harvard indifference has gained appalling credence. But innocent Harvard has too long blushed under the oft repeated charges of intellectual isolation and smug localism. The University, long ready to absorb such blows flush on its scholarly chin, has at last reared up and made some vigorous attempts to fight back, to polish up the tarnished reputation of the new world Cantabrigians. In order to encourage students from the wild and woolly West to spend their undergraduate days in the quiet and completely civilized valley of the Charles...
...Cohan himself--he is magnificent! He grimaces, he mugs, he jigs, he philosophizes whimsically, and he gestures vigorously with his jained Rosseveitian chin. "The Return of the Vagabond" is not a good play: as a matter of fact, it makes no pretense of even being a play. However, a real hoofer will never let his audience down, and this is always good theatre...