Word: chest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since 1935 the U. S. people have acted like a man who saves for his old age, borrows from his savings to meet current expenses, and fills his hope chest with notes payable by himself to himself. Up to the first of this year, they had laid by $1,131,000,000 in Social Security's old age reserve fund which invested it in the people's own promises to pay (U. S. bonds and Treasury notes...
...shelter. Cox, like all the boys in town, knew and admired Earl. Unlike Earl he had never shot a big rifle, but he lay on the floor, took aim. As Durand spied him and raised a smoking rifle, Cox fired. Earl Durand crumpled with a grunt, hit in the chest. He crawled back into the bank, put his revolver to his own temple, pulled the trigger. Bank President Nelson pumped one more bullet into the shaggy, dead head just to make sure...
...whole body is twisting in a useless effort. His chest tries to expand to inhale some air, and His head has fallen sideways. . . . Convulsions shake His body from head to foot. His heart is beating wildly. Red tears are streaming down His cheeks. Oh! His head has fallen completely backwards, and it looks as if He had fainted...
...just the same but not accept his offer. Whereupon General Goring became so enraged that the only thing that averted a complete diplomatic break was a hasty trip to Berlin by no less a person than King Gustav V, who pinned on Herr Göring's bulging chest the highest Swedish military honor-the Grand Cross of the Order of the Sword...
...scared-looking, 18-year-old Corinne Luchaire. As an incubator for stars, Prison Without Bars is unlikely to be another Henry VIII, but U.S. cinemaddicts may well want to see more of Mile Luchaire. Most alarming shot: inmates getting drunk on alcohol purloined from the medicine chest...