Word: chest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Clenching his fists, pouting his chest, Secretary of War Hurley barked at a Philadelphia audience: "If Governor Roosevelt could put into force one-tenth of the promises he has made, he would not only deprive the people of their control of the Government but he would establish an autocracy with himself as the autocrat...
...horde came up against that frigid Old Etonian, one-armed Sir Edward Hilton Young, His Majesty's Minister of Health, who was wounded at Zeebrugge Mole in 1918?a fact of which he is so proud that like Admiral Nelson he pins his empty right sleeve forward on his chest...
...nothing ingratiating about Escudero's performance that evening. He strutted about like a cock in smart, skin-tight costumes which Artist Pablo Picasso had designed for him. He did amazing footwork to a dozen complicated rhythms. He conversed with his castanets, brutally, insolently, insinuatingly. He swelled out his chest and shot meaningful glances at his partners, Carmela and Carmita. He clucked with his tongue, sniffed with his nose, even snapped a fingernail accompaniment to one of his dances...
...October Atlantic Monthly is a suggestion on the football finance problem by President Henry Smith Pritchett of the Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching. The problem, says he, is "to substitute some other sport for football that will bring just as much revenue into the college chest while not exacting the toll in young lives and lowered college ideals. . . . The substitute must provide at least three things: it must be a great spectacle which will attract crowds of paying sightseers, it must invoke at least the semblance of college rivalry, and it must be so ordered that graduates and undergraduates...
...girl's interest in vague, suave, sophisticated, even brilliant young men-of whom the Vagabond once was one. But he can't tell her this-she must find this out for herself. And when it is all over, when the white twill has been laid away in the cedar chest (and the files of the Herald), when the last shoddy slippers have danced their last measure to the last strains of Ruby Newman's orchestra, when the last Harvard Freshman has sauntered off to study at last for finals, then she will see the wisdom and herself pack...