Word: chest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...groveled, grunted, snorted, glowered, slapped, twisted and oozed. Once De Vito bowled over Londos with a butt in the stomach. Finally Londos whirled De Vito around his head in an "airplane spin," threw him down with a loud thud, sat on top of his chest until old fat Ernest Roeber, who used to be a professional wrestler and now referees many of Londos's championship bouts, patted his back for winning...
...best of my recollection I had been using the knee-chest posture for rectal examinations over a considerable period and later noted that [the late J. Marion] Sims had once casually mentioned his use of it also. . . . The occasion of my writing this is that about this time [1895] I secured ... an excellent publication by Walter J. Otis of Boston entitled [in translation] 'Anatomical Examination of the Human Rectum and a New Method of Proctoscopy.' " Dr. Kelly "for a long time intended to make this belated acknowledgment, giving [Dr. Otis] full credit of priority in this important method...
...with gynecology and other abdominal subjects. In June his latest work will be published: Electrosurgery. With the collaboration of Dr. Grant Eben Ward, assistant in clinical surgery at Johns Hopkins, he is recording his long experience with the electric knife in operations dealing with the skin, nose, throat, chest, abdomen, genitourinary system, central nervous system...
...charity bazaar in Milan, Gabriele d'Annunzio gave one of his molar teeth, encased in a silver chest upon which he had engraved the Latin word Durabo (I will last). It was raffled off for 3,000 lire (about $150). Poet d'Annunzio. now practically toothless, bald as an egg, also contributed his War cigarets (bought by a nephew of Il Duce for 1,500 lire - about $75), a piece of cloth on which he had painted a design "with a violent hand." and a bewitched bird. Interviewed upon landing at Rotterdam, bushy-haired Albert Einstein remarked: "Nice...
...Newark, N. J. one day last week a wrinkled old Negro with a fuzzy grey head sat on an ash can on Market Street, his bushy grey beard on his chest, one leathery hand extended for alms. Arrested, he was taken to the station house. The desk sergeant began the routine of booking him. Name? John Torthi. Birthplace? Lynchburg, Va. Date? June 4, 1824. The desk sergeant looked up astonished. Was this old fellow 107 years old? The Negro nodded his head, explained that he had been a slave nearly 40 years before being freed by the Proclamation of Emancipation...