Word: chins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hour came when French Communist Pierre Gamarra turned it into a charming fable. The wind and a moonbeam visit Pablo Picasso in his home on the Riviera. They beg him for a bird, big and strong, to carry a little girl to Wonderland. "To Wonderland?" asks Picasso, rubbing his chin. "What's wrong with this little girl?" "She's afraid of war," whispers the wind. Whereupon Picasso seizes his pen and draws a white dove...
With this off his chest, the President lifted his chin toward another questioner and shifted back into his usual verbal quickstep. He announced that he would take another look at the Midwest flood areas on his way home from the Japanese Peace Conference at San Francisco-adding, amid groans from his interrogators (who must follow him), that he proposed to do some of his flood-area inspecting on foot. Then he casually stood off yet another attempt to smoke him out on that most fascinating of subjects: 1952. He was asked if he would comment on a magazine article...
...lady appeared. Writes Keck in the current museum Bulletin: "The mouth was wider and less luscious; the nose was longer and definitely hooked . . . the eyes were smaller and not so soft and liquid. The entire shape of the face was subtly different and more mouselike, receding especially at the chin...
Harry Truman faced the cameras with the corners of his mouth turned down into his chin. Before him was the Defense Production Act handed up by Congress. There were no jolly Congressmen beaming over his shoulder waiting eagerly for a pen. As he snatched up a black and gold fountain pen, he mumbled loud enough for some reporters to hear: "The worst I ever had to sign." He scratched his signature, then brusquely cut off the photographers (toward ward whom he usually is friendly), saying that he had two telephone calls and a party waiting for him. The party...
Then, with the firm but nervous air of a bespectacled student standing up to the school bully, ex-Professor Douglas began tapping at the President's chin. In a speech before A.F.L. retail clerks, Douglas, an 80% Fair Dealer, deplored the "tendency for the leaders of groups, as they grow powerful, to want only yes men in their organization...