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"ref": "1960 October 13, “Social Agenda Shrinks; Storm Windows, Leaves Take Over”, in Arlington Heights Herald, Arlington Heights, Ill.",
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"ref": "1993, Dermot Bolger, The Picador book of Irish contemporary fiction, page 321",
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"ref": "1993, Grif Stockley, Probable Cause, page 23",
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"ref": "2001, Hugh Shankland, Simple Guide to Italy: Customs & Etiquette, page 8",
"text": "So this Simple Guide to the currrent 'galateo' and everyday social relations in contemporary Italy will not presume to lecture you on such matters as how to hold your fork in the land of pasta, though admittedly eating spaghetti without getting a chinful of sauce is a challenge if you choose to obey the Italian don'ts (don't cut it up, don't use a spoon).",
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"ref": "2013, Emlyn Rees, Josie Lloyd, The Boy Next Door, page 44",
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"ref": "1924, George Shepard Chappell, A Basket of Poses, page 104",
"text": "The low-brow and square-face, The long Bartlett pear-face, The chinless and chinful, The grinless and sinful.",
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"ref": "1970, Bevis Hillier, Cartoons and caricatures, page 152",
"text": "'Flook' by Trog': note the classic representation of the chinless wonder and the chinful wonderess.",
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"ref": "1987, Charles East, The New Writers of the South: A Fiction Anthology, page 176",
"text": "On the Tuesday after Miss Pettigrew's funderal Mr. Conrad Rackley returned to Neely in a rented truck thecab of which he shared with a pair of Masseys who we did not know for Masseys right off but who we recognized as relations on account of a common chinlessness, which is apparently the predominant Massey trait in the West Virginia end of Kentucky. Now the Neely Masseys, and there are eight altogether, are adequately chinful people, but each one of them can catch rainwater in his ears without ever tilting his head.",
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},
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"ref": "1993, Grif Stockley, Probable Cause, page 23",
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},
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"text": "So this Simple Guide to the currrent 'galateo' and everyday social relations in contemporary Italy will not presume to lecture you on such matters as how to hold your fork in the land of pasta, though admittedly eating spaghetti without getting a chinful of sauce is a challenge if you choose to obey the Italian don'ts (don't cut it up, don't use a spoon).",
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"ref": "1970, Bevis Hillier, Cartoons and caricatures, page 152",
"text": "'Flook' by Trog': note the classic representation of the chinless wonder and the chinful wonderess.",
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"ref": "1987, Charles East, The New Writers of the South: A Fiction Anthology, page 176",
"text": "On the Tuesday after Miss Pettigrew's funderal Mr. Conrad Rackley returned to Neely in a rented truck thecab of which he shared with a pair of Masseys who we did not know for Masseys right off but who we recognized as relations on account of a common chinlessness, which is apparently the predominant Massey trait in the West Virginia end of Kentucky. Now the Neely Masseys, and there are eight altogether, are adequately chinful people, but each one of them can catch rainwater in his ears without ever tilting his head.",
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