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...Vishinsky, speaking intensely of the dignity and honor of the Soviet State, enduring assaults which in another scene and time might be calls to war, and always sitting, fondling a pencil, his chin, the papers before him with incessantly moving hands...
...Emperor' Hiromichi (meaning Way of the Great Heart) is 56, unwrinkled, smooth-shaven from crown to chin except for a thin, reddish mustache. He lives incognito as a shopkeeper in the back room of a shabby general store on the outskirts of a bombed-out city. On his black kimono he wears the 16-petaled chrysanthemum forbidden to any but the Emperor of Japan. On his feet are a farmer's wooden geta. He is a devout Buddhist...
...elder Bingham had resorted to insurance offers and movie-star contests to double the C-J's circulation; it had become strictly a business-office paper. It needed a Mark Ethridge to lift its editorial chin. In 1936 it got him, for a reported $25,000 a year...
With that he scurried up to the speaker's platform. His boys broke into cheers, kept right on roaring. The boss's chin quivered. Finally, Petrillo burst into tears. "I'm a soft touch," he sobbed, reaching for a beer. "Either fight or cry." Later he added an aside: "But we don't want any victories, or any fights. We want to love...
...ring. "Stands out by a mile as the boss in this company. He is a restless prisoner, leaning this way and that, flapping his pudgy little hands about, patting his hair, stroking his mouth, massaging his cheeks, resting his chin sideways on the ledge of the dock...