Word: chins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...marched into a room, four-square as a quartermaster, his eyes leveled in search of adversaries. The pockets of his tweedy clothes were stuffed with notes and documents, his hard fighting head was bursting with brains, his mouth crammed with literary fancies and rigid dogma, and his big chin raised good-humoredly for blows. A member of the old Liberal Party, he pitched his speeches on too high an intellectual level for success; but the precise malice of his rhymes, directed at the Tory aristocracy, delighted everybody...
...drive of a .45 slug, but the comic interludes are mostly misfires. Paulette Goddard is agreeably bummy as an affluent madam, and Porter Hall, as one of the witnesses (an undertaker on a spree), firmly supports many a shaky scene with his main comic device: an almost completely absent chin. Edward G. Robinson is as monotonous and entertaining as ever. An actor who has developed well-nigh infinite modulations of the sneer, Robinson, after 30 years of practice, has at last produced his masterpiece. In Vice Squad, he displays a sneer so spectacular that he can almost be said...
...Lieutenant Cordus H. Thornton was on parade. His shoulders squared, head up, chin in, arms firmly at his sides, he about-faced as one does during drill. The Tiger took a handkerchief and bound Lieutenant Thornton's eyes. Then with his pistol he shot him in the back of the neck. A tall, blond sergeant jumped forward and caught his officer's body before it touched the ground. Tenderly, as if carrying a child, the sergeant took the lieutenant's body to the ditch...
...crowd in Potsdam's Platz der Nationen. At 60, he is a sturdy, thick-bodied man, with thinning brown hair and dark eyes that dart busily above pouches of crow's feet. A mustache shades his upper lip, and a goatee bobs from the point of his chin in disarming capriciousness. It is much like Lenin's goatee-a comparison Walter Ulbricht has long encouraged, for most of his life he has dreamed of becoming Germany's Lenin, the triumphant father and leader of a Communist Germany...
...What am I trying to express?" Empire-Builder Cecil Rhodes would exclaim to his friend, the famous writer. "Say it! Say it!" Then Rudyard Kipling would say it, "and if the phrase suited not, Rhodes would . . . work it over, chin a little down, till it satisfied him." In such a way, the great man finally wrote his will, and set up the scholarships* that he hoped would "encourage and foster . . . the union of the English-speaking people throughout the world." Last week, on the 100th anniversary of Rhodes's birth and the 50th anniversary of the scholarships' founding...