Word: breasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Left to breast the tidal wave publicly have been journalists. Minute is the editorial writer's audience, compared with the multitudes whom Townsend propagandists reach by word of mouth, pamphlets, speeches, club meetings. But last week three of the best & best-read columnists in the land jabbed at the rosily glittering Townsend bubble...
...course. There are swimming records for distances from 50 yd. up to a mile. There are records in yards and records in meters. There are world, national intercollegiate and association records, records for men, records for women. Each of the five swimming styles-free style, back stroke, breast stroke, medley and relay-has its own group of records. Because there are altogether 700 swimming records, hardly a swimming meet is held which does not break one. Accordingly, swimming enthusiasts were less than amazed when they read last week that 27 records had been broken by U. S. swimmers...
...burst among them; who never have gone hungry in a general strike, nor have manned streetcars when the tracks are dynamited; who never have sought cover in a street trying to get their heads behind a gutter; who never have seen a woman shot in the head, in the breast or in the buttocks; who never have seen an old man with the top of his head off; who never have walked with their hands up; who have never shot a horse or seen hooves smash a head; who never have sat a horse and been shot at or stoned...
...Brasov, where that Jewish Juno, large, muscular, red-haired Mme Magda Lupescu, often dallies with King Carol II, guards caught a fully-armed spy roaming the Royal Palace last week. Spy Ludwig Andrei had in his breast pockets plans of the palace, its secret entrances and those sliding panels which have enabled Rumanian Royalty to pass with such discretion from one bedchamber to another. Next day police, gendarmes and detectives raided scores of hotels, restaurants and clubs, stopped railway trains to search passengers to the skin. By nightfall Spy Andrei had been joined in jail by over 5,000 suspects...
Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, and the Harvard Band has excelled in its savage-soothing this fall. From the drop of the hat at the Bates game, they have consistently outfought their opposition, formed more and bigger letters on the field, and completely hypnotized the audience with their symphonic renderings. New uniforms of surpassing beauty have been obtained, the drum major has dropped his baton but a single time, and excepting the persistent bashfulness of the big drum between the halves, the job has been exceptionally well done...