Word: bosoms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crew who happened to be ashore were recalled on a few hours' notice spread by flashing the order on cinema screens at Portland and circulating it among the pubs. In strict technicality the Admiralty's knowledge of exactly where the Home Fleet might be was locked in the resolute bosom of the fleet's immediate commander aboard the 33,500-ton battleship Nelson, Admiral Sir Roger Roland Charles Backhouse (pronounced back-house...
Governor Alf Landon clutched the bouquet to his bosom where he was already holding one tossed that morning from California (see below). But the Republican enemies of Republicans Curtis and Landon could not let the ceremony pass. Was it, they asked, a bouquet from a bride or a skunk cabbage from a scullery maid? What right had Charles Curtis to speak for Kansas? What right had he to propose a candidate for President? By way of answer, they produced a note written by Mr. Curtis to the tax assessor of Shawnee County, Kans. giving notice that he had transferred...
...hinted indirectly at a tendency of many to conclude that the more facts one amasses the less one actually knows about life. Cynics often claim that the only advantage of a college education is to unload the mind of the prejudices and ideals bred in the family bosom. Henry Adams was rather more gentle in saying that if it did nothing else, Harvard College left the mind...free from bias...docile...
Wiggins Trade School stepped into the entrance hall, bugged his eyes. Overnight the two upper corners of the panel had been painted in. On the right, flames were licking the smooth, bare bosom of a pensive goddess. On the left, a bisexual ogre with bulbous breasts was squeezing gold coins from the eye sockets of a skull. Horrified, Principal Johnson rang for the janitor, hung 80 yards of cheesecloth over the mural before his pupils arrived. Artist Katz kept on working. Under the cheesecloth a blind, muscular youth in rowing trunks took shape. The youth's left arm stretched...
Just for dinner and the horseplay of the initiation did the President stay. Then, accompanied by his initiate son, he entrained for Hyde Park and the bosom of his fun-loving family: mother, wife and daughter. Next day he initiated his new son-in-law, John Boettiger in Roosevelt pastimes. In a bright red sleigh with Daughter Anna by his side and Son-in-law John in a single seat behind, President Roosevelt drove for several miles over the snow-packed roads of the Roosevelt estate, to tea at the cottage near the Val-Kill furniture factory...