Word: chest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Marshal died a brave man in a little garden on the Avenue de l'Observatoire. He stood without a blindfold and told the soldiers to aim at his heart. Three of the firing squad were good shots and put three bullets through his chest, three more pierced his skull and one hit his arm. His body, following the usual custom was allowed to remain as it lay for 15 minutes. Many of his friends saw it and the representative of the military governor of Paris made the physical examination and reported back that the tribunal's order...
...Trouble Chest. Of the $750,000,000 of new financing which the President mentioned, Secretary Morgenthau last week announced that the Treasury would borrow $400,000,000 on Sept. 15. It was seeking that much right away, he explained, chiefly because the Administration had decided to keep a cash balance of around $1,000,000,000 on hand in case of trouble (i. e., war) abroad...
...unshaven flyer was Harry Richman, 41, who has had a certain success singing torch songs while beating himself on the chest. Born Harry Reichman in Cincinnati, Crooner Richman went on the stage in 1907, rose to vaudeville prominence in 1921 as accompanist to Mae West. Same year he started as a radio performer, has since been a steady Broadway revue star, appeared in several cinemas, run a Manhattan night club across the street from his tough brother's speakeasy. Unmarried and supposedly well-off, he occasionally splurges money in such ways as insuring his voice...
...euphonium, a tuba-like brass horn which Mr. von Schilling had borrowed from a friend. Suddenly Father von Schilling heard a soft beep from the big euphonium, saw that Son Stanwurt was not only blowing into it but blowing correctly from the solar plexus rather than from the chest. Von Schilling leaped to a piano, struck an F and B flat which the child immediately echoed. Musician von Schilling cried to his wife: "Mother, I've got a euphonium player...
Father von Schilling, on & off relief, coached small Stanwurt until the youngster could play a man-sized repertoire without fatigue to his peewee chest, throat, lips, cheeks. In December Stanwurt played the euphonium at a policemen's entertainment in Norfolk City Auditorium. Then he graduated to the biggest wind instrument of all, the Sousaphone (see cut). From H. N. White Co. in Cleveland, Father von Schilling obtained a King Giant Sousaphone with a 28-in. gold bell and the standard-sized mouthpiece. The Sousaphone was mounted on a rack so that Stanwurt could crawl into it, huff & puff, while...