Word: breast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tenderly pressed close to your breast...
...then the battle was disconcerted again. An observer (the Hearst press) noticed what looked like a spy within the Republican lines. The observer told Chief of Staff Harrison, chief hurler of Democratic sarcasm grenades. To the breast-works leapt Harrison and shouted that Brigadier Bingham, the Republican's most air-conscious hero and a superb college professor, had harbored in his tent one Charles L. Eyanson, assistant to the chieftain of the Manufacturers' Association in Brigadier Bingham's home domain of Connecticut; that this Eyanson had received federal pay as Bingham's assistant, what time...
...Together they grew, prospered. In time, so excellent became their clothes that retailers saw advantage in breaking the custom which demanded that a suit bear only the retailer's label. Thereafter the name Stein-Bloch or Fashion Park appeared with the retailer's name on the inside breast pocket of many a U. S. citizen's suit. Prominent among retailers to adopt this new policy were Manhattan's Weber & Heilbroner, and Finchley...
Stalwart, brawny men there are today who, if they could remember scenes from their suckling days, would recall not the soft fullness of a mother's breast but a chunky tin can emitting the satisfying gurgle of U. S. condensed milk. And many a man, sensitive to form and color, would recall as a prime symbol of his infancy a fine full-blown pink blossom-the trademark of Carnation Milk...
...Almost nonchalantly it heaved its proud silver beauty to the first pale rays of the pastel dawn, sunning the gleaming breast with almost birdlike coquetry...