Word: shinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there were many less stately homes in England that badly needed heat, many an ugly factory that needed fuel. Amid the hubbub, Fuel Minister Emanuel Shin-well went right on digging. Said he: "I must have coal...
...pushed with impunity, LaGuardia (who has PM's promise to print whatever he writes) whirled about and sharply kicked the Ingersoll shin...
...this review is funny, so is "Horse Feathers", which dates back to the ginmill and the shin-length skirt. It's a picture about a co-ed college in what some people think were the good old days; but they weren't such hot days, and it's not such a hot movie, though a few Perelman gems stick out like well thumbs. For instance, the college is called "Huxley College." That's Perelman up to his old tricks again...
Liao Chang-shin was an innkeeper in Changshow, a little Yangtze river port some 60 miles from Chungking. Business was brisk and Liao seemed at peace with the world. When, from time to time, somebody disappeared in Changshow without leaving a trace, the innkeeper, like most of Changshow's citizens, shrugged his shoulders. People are always disappearing these days...
...police received an anonymous letter. It sounded incredible, but they investigated. Then the story came out: since April, Liao Chang-shin, with the assistance of one Hsui Chang-shan, had robbed and killed 78 people, most of them guests at his inn. When police caught Liao, he was about to dispose of Victim No. 79, who had given him $90,000 (Chinese) for safekeeping. Last week Liao and Hsui were awaiting death after confessing that they had averaged a little over a murder...