Word: chest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty-nine years ago the U. S. Congress was on the verge of approving a Nicaraguan canal. Frenchmen who wanted the U. S. to take the Panama site off their hands were in despair. Their promise of a $250,000 contribution to the G. O. P. campaign chest failed to produce results. Then suddenly Momotombo blew off. Wily Philippe Bunau-Varilla, French agent, sent a Nicaraguan postage stamp to each & every member of Congress. Up in the Senate rose Ohio's eloquent Marcus Alonzo Hanna who had not forgotten the $250,000 campaign promise. Between thumb & finger, high over...
...wear a 7¼ size hat, size 11 shoes, measure 40 in. around the waist and 41 in. around the chest. I am a student at Central Junior High School...
Into Wozzeck, Büchner worked all his tense, young pity for the downtrodden. Wozzeck is a poor bewildered soldier, stationed in a small German city in peacetime. His captain bullies him, a crackbrain doctor experiments on him, his mistress philanders with the drum-major, who has chest like a bull and a beard like a lion." Twenty-six terse, stark scenes tell the tragedy. Wozzeck stabs his mistress, drowns himself. At the end, while the news is gibbered through the streets, their child rides about on his hobbyhorse...
...nation's perfect man is John Tempre of Manhattan, chosen from some 300 candidates by the Clothing Designers' Executives' Association. Perfect Man Tempre, selected because of the fortuitous "proportions and postures of his body," is 28.5 ft. 8 in. tall, weighs 138 lb., unmarried. His chest measures 36 in., his sleeves are 17½in. long. Stylists were inspired to design for him a modish, summery tea-dance outfit...
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...