Word: chest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...oysters and, later, cigaret butts. Dali's handsome wife wore a dress of transparent red paper, a headpiece decorated with lobsters and a doll's head, representing necrophilia, which Mme Dali herself explained as "excessive fondness for dead bodies." Artist Dali wore a glass case on his chest containing a brassiere. Some of the men wore tail coats, no trousers. One woman came naked from the waist up, was hastily removed. Wrote society reporters: "It was all cockeyed, terribly amusing and just about the most sophisticated party of the year." Said Mme Dali: "It was an experiment...
Which is to say the difference between a man and a hen. . . . Pep is something that makes a man straighten up, throw out his chest, stick out his chin, and do things. ... It brightens his wits. It sharpens his tongue. It creates sunshine all around...
Deep in a lumber chest. Sometimes I'm near...
...only that criminals are physically marked off from the general population-chiefly by inferiority of bodily dimensions-but that there is "well nigh incredible relationship of body build to nature of offense." An example: First-degree murderers differ from other criminals in being older, heavier, taller, with bigger chest and head circumferences, narrower foreheads, longer and narrower noses, broader jaws...
...complete absence of expression on the face." Writing of English millinery they call attention to "the tailored felt, worn en bash over the eyebrows or well back on the head, its slant depending on whether you prefer to have the rain pour down your back or your chest." Of food: "Toast: Is a cold, hard fact faced by the cook the instant she rises and then set aside to get colder and harder while the rest of the meal is being prepared." Of party manners: "You will, of course, want to appear well-bred. So hand your hostess a dead...