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...skinny hair. His pince-nez rimless glasses give his somber blue eyes the precise squint of the clerk of a small-town council who secretly believes he will some day be mayor. He shaves twice daily yet never seems clean-shaven. His jowls flab down to a murderous little chin; the mustache is a respectful miniature of Hitler's. When Hitler's mouth is not in use, it says bah; Himmler's says all right, you asked...
...histrionic legs are here shrouded in fancy skirts may sadden her admirers. But she makes up for that in one high-stepping number which has something of the shock value that might result from watching grandma, in the bloom of her youth, chuck an old rip under the chin with the toe-point of her slipper...
...style was equally unorthodox. Like his friendly enemy in a lifelong battle of wits, Bernard Shaw, Chesterton delighted in weaving his strictures against the unorthodox in a web of paradoxical wit. To freethinkers he said: "You are armed to the teeth and buttoned up to the chin with the great agnostic Orthodoxy, perhaps the most placid and perfect of all the orthodoxies of men. . . . I approach you with the reverence and the courage due to a bench of bishops...
...deaf-mutes talk much faster with their fingers than other people talk with their tongues.) To preach a sermon vocally and sign it at the same time is like preaching in two languages. Sign language is literal: "man" is touching the brow (man tipping hat); "woman" is touching the chin (woman tying bonnet strings). It has no syntax, consists of isolated words which the deaf piece together to make sense. "Man, working, tall, house, fall" means "A man working on the roof of a tall house fell...
...averageness, Hope is any healthy, cocky, capering American. He is the guy who livens up the summer hotel, makes things hum at the corset salesmen's convention, keeps a coachful of passengers laughing for an hour when a train is stalled. With his ski-slide nose and matching chin, he looks a little funny but he also looks normal, even personable, seems part of the landscape rather than the limelight...