Word: chest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cannot decide, not like this-not all in a moment!" cried flustered Papa Chéron, "I must think." Characteristically he rose, paced the Cabinet room with big steps, tapping thoughtfully on his huge chest...
Died. Larry Fay, 44, Manhattan racketeer; of two bullets in his chest, one in his back; in his former speakeasy Casa Blanca, with three dimes in his pocket, in Manhattan. Last seen with him was a drunken doorman whose salary had just been cut from $100 to $60 a week. Fop, playboy, sinister character, he specialized in taxicab organizing, introducing cabs with silver-piped hoods, was quick to turn an ambiguous penny at anything (liquor, milk, night clubs, etc.), was never convicted of a felony...
...game. With the stands in an uproar, the coach rushed over to me and said 'My God, who . . . where . . . who are you, where did you learn to play such football?' I looked at him, peeled off my sweater and showed him all the decorations and medals pinned on my chest that I had won playing football in England, Turkey, Germany...."?Howard Scott, as told to Greenwich Village cronies...
...Press. Last week he was even reluctant to release a reproduction of an oil portrait belonging to his son. Calvin Bullock advertisements never carry the firm's address. Bushy-browed, slightly bald, he prefers talking about his collection of Napoleonana to talking business. Prized items include the personal chest which Napoleon carried on many of his campaigns, a bust of himself which Napoleon carried to St. Helena, Lord Nelson's dress sword, a pair of Lady Hamilton's earrings. On the wall to the right of Banker Bullock's big desk is the famed copy...
...orchestra to start over again. But with his second attempt he had mastered his vocal powers like a seasoned artist. Manfully he proceeded to display a firm, dark-hued tenor voice. It had no great volume, no ringing top notes. It had evidently been strained, misused. His sunken chest and relaxed abdomen were witnesses of faulty breathing which must have gone on for years. But the tones of his middle register, though slightly nasal, had clarity, directness. His legato was not languishing but neither did it have the vibrato so regrettably common among inexperienced singers...