Word: chest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sang the cocky little pigs in Walt Disney's Silly Symphony, the technicolor short which, held over in Manhattan ever since its appearance last spring (TIME, June 5), is still talk-of-the-town. The big, bad wolf came, a frightful shaggy fellow with dripping chops and a chest as big as a barrel. He huffed & he puffed & he blew down the houses of sticks and straws, sent the foolish piglets scuttling to the wise piglet's house where they hid under a bed, yet like professional pluggers kept repeating their song until audiences knew it by heart...
Most newspapers did not print a story that Mrs. Roosevelt told in Washington one night last week. Addressing a banquet of Community Chest leaders at the Mayflower Hotel she declared: "I thought of a woman I had seen just after her child died. The child had died because it slept in a cold, wet bed. It had had to sleep in that bed because the family had been evicted from its home. The mother told the sheriff that her child was sick. He said to her: "I'm not here to nurse your god-damned kids.' " That morning...
...felt dizzy. Perry ran out on the court apparently fresher than when the match began. He ran off three games, his flat drives equaling anyone's for speed. Crawford let him blaze out the set at love. In the last set, Crawford's gesture of patting his chest as though his heart or his lungs hurt him, became more noticeable. He managed to break through Perry's serve in the third game and then suddenly the deliberate manner that had seemed to indicate a carefully controlled supply of reserve energy became an expression of utter fatigue. Perry...
...Whistler-A boy in Vermont, accustomed to working alone, was so prone to whistling, that, as soon as he was by himself, he un- consciously commenced. When asleep, the muscles of his mouth, chest, and lungs were so completely concatenated in the association, he whistled with astonishing shrillness. A pale countenance, loss of appetite, and almost total prostration of strength, convinced his mother it would end in death, if not speedily overcome, which was accomplished by placing him in the society of another boy, who had orders to give him a blow as soon as he began to whistle...
...some walnuts, went with his prisoner into a shop to buy them. When he stepped up to the counter. Wood spied a policeman. Suddenly nerved, he cried: "Look out, that man has a gun!" and started to run. Meek wheeled around, fatally wounded the policeman in the chest, then backed slowly away. After him came a crowd of butchers and shoppers. One of the butchers flung a knife at Meek. He dodged it, ran outside, stopped suddenly four feet from a plainclothes man. He started shooting again, hit a woman. The plainclothes man neatly drilled a bullet into Meek...