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Word: chins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME, Feb. 21] is an especially intriguing bit of plastic surgery. Is there anything symbolic about the scowling eye, the gloating mouth, and the lantern-jawed chin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 14, 1949 | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...spend money. Once she walked two blocks to Democratic headquarters because her hotel charged 12? for a phone call. People are always trying to wheedle money out of her; she does her own ordering for big affairs, and drives a good housewifely bargain. Says Perle, thrusting out her chin: "I'm stingy. That's why I've got my money today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL: Widow from Oklahoma | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...Hearts Club" where he started most of his pitches, and he wrote her admiring letters. But when he went to Pensacola to meet her, he discovered that she was not quite his type-she had no money. Also, she weighed 200 Ibs., had wrestler's arms, a terraced chin and the cold eye of a jail matron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Big Martha | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...well-preserved little Nile maidens with their high busts and long bobs stands more than 30 inches in bare feet. The handsome obsidian head of Pharaoh Amenemhat III (1800 B.C.), ranked by Egyptologists as one of the great masterpieces of Egyptian art, measures less than 5 inches from chin to crown. Other pieces-the intricately carved make-up spoon used by Egyptian belles to mix cosmetics, and the bronze cat (with the remains of the sacred original coffined inside)-also take up little room. Nonetheless, the National was sporting (for an indefinite period) the most important private collection of Egyptian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Real Connoisseur | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

...Ethel Merman, her partner and predecessor in this glorification of vulgarity) a thing which is funny in itself. Miss Walker must rely on her wide variety of comical walks, certain headgear which always manages to get in her eyes, outlandish get-ups which frequently hide all but that jutting chin, and a face that could never be forgiven, were it anything but funny. Above all this, Miss Walker has the common touch. (To which she would surely reply: "If its common...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: Along Fifth Avenue | 1/4/1949 | See Source »

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