Word: chins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Each morning, in his Los Angeles penthouse, a dapper real-estate man named Alexander Wolanow carefully runs an electric razor over his chin, cheeks and jowls. Then, with smooth, swift motions, he keeps right on mowing back over his entire skull. The reason, says "Sacha" Wolanow, is that "I like to be different...
...fair presumption. Many of the Indians were friendly, but there were plenty who were not. The travelers were repeatedly attacked by grizzlies. Another common complaint was "Louis Veneri," which could be "contracted from an amorous contact with a Chinnook damsel." Clark dutifully reported that "the Chin-nook womin are lude and carry on sport publickly...
Christ receive his crown of thorns. One wore a toothbrush mustache; the other had a jutting chin. The resemblance to Hitler and Mussolini was too close for coincidence. Explained Designer Albert Birkle: "My pencil, as if by accident, drew the image of Hitler and Mussolini on the drawing board. I find nothing disturbing in putting these two men. who killed thousands of priests and millions of Christians, among the persecutors of Christ." But Graz was disturbed. Wrote the Grazer Montag: "In a church this sort of thing has no place." Church officials decided to keep the window...
...Geoffrey Gorer and France's Jean-Paul Sartre, several still little-known but promising rookies have recently reported that U.S. children are developing prognathy ("The lower jaw is thrust forward as a result of lying for hours on the floor in front of the TV screen, chin in hand"); that, when the air conditioning breaks down anywhere, "New York reverts to terror in the face of a hostile and uncontrollable nature"; and that "the female secondary sex characteristic is the dominant theme in current American culture." Against this background of strange visions, Luigi Barzini Jr., a distinguished Italian journalist...
Churchill played two roles, and his audience loved him in both. To the party, he was Old Tory, bucolic and patriotic, quick to boot Socialist backsides and to chuck the British voter under the chin. The other Churchill looked larger, more visionary and controversial. He was the great Britannic Moses, sharing his wisdom with the benighted, urging them to follow where...