Word: clefts
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...Marin has combined high principles and shrewd politics to fashion a career that astonishes the friends and enemies who, only a few years ago, regarded him as dilettante, dreamer, revolutionary and bohemian. Muñoz is a husky, stoop-shouldered man with eloquent dark eyes, a big nose, a cleft chin and furrowed brow. Except when he is amused or surprised, his face has a kind of built-in sad-angry expression...
...collar was quite a thing to wear. When Palmer took charge of the company in 1929, it was wilting badly. Cluett, Peabody sales, which reached a peak of $32 million in 1919, had been based on the Arrow Collar, as worn by women, and the clean-shaven, cleft-chinned Arrow Collar Man, a creation of Artist Joseph Leyendecker. From a million billboards and car cards, his coldly correct profile mounted on an Arrow choker gave feminine hearts a guide to male perfection. Like his culture mate, the tightly corseted Gibson Girl, the Arrow Collar Man disappeared from...
...below dress hems. Jacques Fath had his own private eccentricity; he slit his narrow skirts up the rear, to a point well above the back of the knees. From the bow, one of his bridal dresses looked as sleek as a racing sloop. Viewed from the stern, with fantail cleft, it looked more like a minesweeper...
...year-old man. . . . Who put those [inlays] in - a steamfitter? . . . Miss Smedley, how many times have I told you not to count the patient's money in front of him? Take the wallet outside and go through it there. . . . H'm'm'm, a cleft palate. . . . While we're at it, I think we'd better tear out those lowers with a jackhammer...
...Rugged, cleft-chinned Bishop Wand was a brilliant student at Oxford (he took a first-class in theology) and a chaplain in World War I. For eleven years, he was a tutor at Sarum Theological College; then he was recalled to Oxford as dean of Oriel College. In 1934, he became Archbishop of Brisbane...