Word: breasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shrewd, if flattering, portrait. Of Henry James she threatens to write a book, contents herself instead with a few pages; ''With a labouring that began stirring in the soles of his feet and worked up with Gargantuan travail through his knees and weighty abdomen to his heaving breast and strangled column of a throat. . . he spoke." The day she met him she was wearing a hat with a cluster of small white lovebirds in front. "He gasped with horror, pointed his finger, and said with utter kindness. 'My child, my very dear child-the cruelty...
...mother bereft never equal the gusto of that master of the choked gurgle, Mr. Al Jolson (applause, a little scattered). When Mickey Bennett sits on the sofa with the little girl with the curls, and she attempts to pull his head down on her juvenile and probably bony breast, and he draws away, she says: "Don't you understand?" It's a talkie...
...last week). He was borne aloft on the Sedia Gestatoria, by attendants in flame-colored livery. He was fanned by other minions majestically agitating great clusters of ostrich plumes upon long poles. His garment was white of a creamy richness, but lis robe was all bloodred. On his breast blazed the Crux Pectorale, a great cross of diamonds. And above the shapely, bespectacled head of Pope Pius XI towered the holy apostolic tiara of pure, massy gold...
...more coating of scorn. "She is a fat person!" he gibed. "A peasant type." Then he joyously pointed to a reproduction of the Louvre Belle. "This is a great lady of the period." Reverting to the Hahn painting he described the shoulders as flabby, the arms as puffy, the breast as lacking modeling, the embroidery as untrue to Leonardo's period. "The hair!" he exclaimed, "That's not hair-that is mud! ... If an artist paints wood it must be wood, not steel. If he paints hair it must be hair...
...chief reason that the society is driving its information at women is that more women than men die of cancer, "on account of the part which women play in the reproduction of the race." Early recognition and prompt treatment of cancer is always of inestimable value, particularly in breast cancer. The burden of caring for the sick and aged falls chiefly upon women, and for this reason they should know that cancer is not contagious, and that many of the common beliefs regarding its cause and treatment are untrue. Because they are so often the guardians of the family...