Word: chins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even friendly Labor Party M.P.s were passing on the rumor: Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Stafford Cripps, was hearing voices. One newsman put the question straight to him: Did he hear voices or didn't he? Instead of laughing, Cripps rubbed his chin thoughtfully for a long moment, then answered seriously, with a sentence that would have stunned Joan of Arc's judges: "I don't think so-at least...
...into the recesses of an enormous scuffed leather purse, located a stick of drugstore lip rouge and smeared it generously on the tip of her nose. "I think about character a lot," she said gravely. "It's much more important than timing." She wiped the lipstick under her chin and made two bull's-eyes on each cheek. "The more dead serious you are about a character, even a comic character, the more the audience will like and understand it." Brushing aside a small pile of slightly battered false eyelashes, she peered furiously into the mirror and began...