Word: breast
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...looks of the undergraduates, by the pensive droop of their heads, by their strife to be polite to visitors despite the calamity, by the dim lights of the club, by the English tea, by the yearning of the club members fingers toward the breast pocket where the pencil lay, I realized that a great blow had been struck that day for the furtherance of Yale letters...
...justice is the sinister feature, and to me as to you the incomprehensible feature,--of our U. S. civilization. . . . When the ordinary American hears of these cases instead of the idealist within him beginning to see red with the higher indignation, instead of English history growing alive in his breast, he begins to pooh-pooh and minimize and tone down the thing, and breed excuses from his general fund of optimism and respect for expedience...