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Sentences with chinless wonder

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  • 1948, volume 31, page 18: This was probably the most insufferable social event of a very dull season. The bride blushingly gave her age as forty-two, but the old battle-axe could have been an eye-witness to the San Francisco Fire. At long last, little Dagmar's folks have got her married off to Morty, the chinless wonder. He couldn't hold down a job as grocery clerk, and will be manager of father-in-law's wholesale grocery firm. 1967, The Assistant Librarian, volume 60–61, page 24: She is thin, starved to near perfection [ …] He, a chinless wonder, a credit to Carnaby Street; they stand hand in hand before the enquiry desk1979, The Spectator, volume 243, number 1, page 25: [Actor] John Harding personified the idle spirit of the times as a tennis-possessed chinless wonder.
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