Word: chins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bertrand Russell has bright blue eyes, a big nose and very little chin, looks like Alice in Wonderland's Mad Hatter. The British upper classes believe that he is mad. For 30 years Earl Russell has scandalized them with his unconventional ideas about politics, marriage, education. According to one tale, a local rector, visiting an unorthodox school for children that Bertrand Russell and the second of his three wives ran in Hampshire a few years ago, knocked on the door, which was opened by a nine-year-old girl, stark naked. Cried he: "Good God!" Retorted she, slamming...
...good start, C-P-P took it on the chin when Depression I got going. From a comfortable $7,598,224 in 1931, profits kerplunked to a miserable $53,301 the next year. Reason: the stubbornness of President Charles Pearce (a Johnson man) in trying to hold his top-heavy volume in the face of rising distribution costs and collapsing soap prices. Up rose young (35) S. Bayard Colgate, great-grandson of the founder. Using his family's 40% ownership of the firm's stock as a lever, he booted Pearce out, took over the presidency...
...looking like Pinnochio's Geppetto--small and wizened, with a rapidly thinning shock of white hair, bright rabbit-like eyes, wire-rimmed glasses set on the end of a very sharp nose, and a brown wart with two grey hairs protruding from the end of a long, sharp chin--Vag was very certain of the wart...
Whether ponderous Bob Taft gets the Republican nomination or not, nobody winks at his energetic seriousness. He takes many a clip on the chin but keeps wading in. Still beaming from the Washington embrace, he showed up in Florida to do his stuff. There he added to the file of Calvinesque Taft pictures by letting himself be photographed fishing-coatless but in a store suit...
...Chinese heroes whose exploits long ago became legend was General Ma Chan-shan ("Giant Horse"). General Ma was no giant (5 ft. 8 in.), but he was an expert horseman. Thin, nervous, explosive, scratching his chin or mustache as he talked, General Ma smoked a little opium for pleasant dreams, woke from them fresh for action at 5:30 every morn ing. Operating in the far north, he organized a fantastic-appearing but formidable cavalry force made up mostly of Mongols and Manchurians, whose feet almost dragged on the ground astride their tiny Mongolian ponies. They wore badges on their...