Word: breasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...courtyard of Fort Braschi at dawn Ugo Traviglia was marched before a firing squad. Dramatically he begged his executioners' pardon, asked to be shot in the breast, facing the rifles with his eyes unbound. It was not granted. Ugo Traviglia was blindfolded, shot in the back...
Charles Edwin Mitchell, onetime head of National City Bank, wearing a short black coat, grey striped trousers, handkerchief in breast pocket, his granite jaw set, his fierce eyes peering intently from beneath his big brow crowned with a stiff brush of upstanding grey hair, was on trial for alleged evasion of income taxes: 1) in 1929 by making a fictitious sale of 18,300 shares of National City stock to his wife to establish a loss of $2,872,000, thereby avoiding a tax of $728,000; 2) in 1930 by making a fictitious sale to William D. Thornton, president...
...same purposes. ¶ On June 3, 1898 Richmond Pearson Hobson won the nation's applause by sinking the Merrimac to bottle up the Spanish fleet in the harbor of Santiago de Cuba. Last week President Roosevelt pinned a Congressional Medal of Honor on the Hobson breast for that feat. Mr. Hobson is nowadays a famed anti-narcotics crusader (TIME, March 2, 1931). ¶ Long and loyal service was rewarded last week when President Roosevelt appointed Robert Hayes Gore of Florida to be Governor of Puerto Rico. Loudly had Publisher Gore boomed Franklin Roosevelt for the Presidency through his Fort...
...championships in lowboard diving and the 300-yd. medley swim, with a new world's record of 4:14.4; at the Women's National A. A. U. Championships, in Buffalo. Other titleholders: Lenore Kight, 100-yd., 220-yd., and 500-yd. free style; Margaret Hoffman, 100-yd. breast stroke.; Joan McSheehy, 100-yd. back stroke; Dorothy Poynton, highboard diving...
...Miss Diana Wynyard in a leading role, and it is encouraging to see the star of "Cavaleade" already keeping the best company which the screen world can afford, Lewis Stone, whose praise has always been insufficient. Phillips Holmes, of the sharp aesthetic face, is the man in whose breast the conflict of principle works. He is the internationally-minded American youth, who returns from his chemical studies in Geneva, to find America embarking on the second "war to end war" in 1940. His birth was the result of one of these trained nurse--doomed aviator combinations so frequent...