Word: chest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gridiron Club whom he entertains every year, is glad to attend the large and elaborate dinners he gives in his home on swank Sheridan Circle. Sentimental, warmhearted, likable, democratic, he is president of Washington's Alfalfa Club (men's dining), onetime president of the Washington Community Chest. Still frail in health, his only hobby is collecting first editions, rare copies, manuscripts of English and U. S. literary works. Last week he acquired the manuscript of Longfellow's paean to honest poverty, "The Village Blacksmith...
Year ago U. S. newspicture editors were astonished to receive from Germany what purported to be the photograph of a man flying under his own power by blowing into a box which supposedly actuated rotors strapped to his chest. He wore skis for landing gear, was shown just after the take-off with his friends trotting behind. The picture-as most editors learned too late-was a hoax concocted by the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung for its annual April Fool issue (TIME, April...
...later Union Trust sold the shares to Coalesced Co. for the exact purchase price plus 6% interest and transfer taxes, even though the market value of the shares had since declined. Created by Mr. Mellon in 1929 as a private holding company, Coalesced Co. is an interesting family treasure chest which Government counsel asserted to be nothing but a tax-dodging device. Its voting but non-dividend-paying common stock is shared equally by Son Paul Mellon and Daughter Ailsa Mellon Bruce. Its dividend-paying preferred stock Papa Andrew kept for himself...
...serious doctor no longer feels like Christ over Lazarus when he makes a dead patient's heart beat again. An injection of adrenalin or a tickle with the electrical pacemaker may do the trick. Or, if the patient is on the operating table with his abdomen or chest open, the surgeon may massage the heart into motion. Nonethe-less this stale medical story still looks like news and is printed, often on front pages a dozen times a year for the bench of those who cannot remember what they read...
When he went to London to support himself by scholarly journalism he carried on his Spartan regime, started the day, whatever the weather, by a run and a swim in the Serpentine. In one Christmas-Day swimming race his chest was severely cut by the ice. He bought his eggs by the week, turned them over each morning like so many hour-glasses, so that the yolk would not settle to the edge, start rotting. After three years of London, Fowler joined his brother Frank on the island of Guernsey, lived in hermit-like sociability, 50 yards away from...