Word: chins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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High point of the concert were the five Spanish songs by anonymous sixteenth-century composers. The two for Christmas, "No la devemos dormir" for its wonderful tenderness and "Rin, rin, chin" for its powerful devotion, provided an exciting contrast in religious feeling. But the delicate subtlety of this group were not sufficient preparation for the Hindemith and Copland with which the program closed. Although they fitted in far better than would any Classical or Romantic music, several of the Hindemith songs were spent adjusting the audience to modern dissonance and counterpoint. In the last selection, Copland's pictorial "Lark," Paul...
...midweek, a grey stubble was visible on the presidential chin. Encountering Truman at the officers' pool, a newsman remarked: "Mr. President, it looks like you're growing a Vandyke." Said Truman: "That's not a Vandyke, that's a Jeff Davis." The reporter quipped: "You must be courting the Southern rebels." Truman laughed...
...Maine woman, a widow of 45, and she lived alone. When she had made up her mind to commit suicide, she laid her chin on the muzzle of a 12-gauge shotgun and pulled the trigger. The charge tore through her tongue, palate and nose, went on through the front part of the brain and out through the forehead...
...Orthodox concern for sidecurls starts with Leviticus, 19:27: "Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard." The Talmud carefully enumerates the corners: two on each cheek, one on the chin. Yemenite Jews often shave their heads, but leave the sidecurls (peoth) untouched...
Guinea Pigs. One of McIndoe's first patients was a flyer named Paul Hart. Flames had burned away his nose; his cheeks were raw; his eyelids, eyebrows and chin were gone; his mouth was crushed to an ugly, gaping gash. Some 25 operations and 3½ years later, Paul had recovered his face. Today, he and his young wife are running one of the most prosperous bulb farms in England...