Word: chest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sing, You Sinners and In My Little Hope Chest (Brunswick)?Composer W. Franke Harling (his opera: A Light from St. Agnes) wrote these tunes for the cinema Honey. The first, best of the month's output, is played with rare jubilance by Tom Gerun and his band...
...paid as individual income tax in 1928 with a figure of $936,000,000, which Life said was the cost of Prohibition enforcement "and loss in revenue." Then Life made this proposition: if you agreed with its sentiments, please send at least $1 to "the Life War Chest." It was promised that "every penny thus received will be used by Life to buy similar publicity throughout the country." The astuteness of this proposition was at once apparent: by working on Prohibition sentiment, the magazine would literally get the public to pay for a lot of out-and-out advertising...
Life's president nowadays is Clair Maxwell, 38, aggressive sportsman-executive, able brother of able brothers.* But the astute "War Chest'' scheme was not conceived by him. Life's vice-president nowadays is tall Langhorne Gibson, onetime oarsman, son of Artist Charles Dana Gibson, who has worked for the magazine some 40 years, is now board chairman. the scheme was not Gibson-generated. of Life is Norman Hume Anthony, in last year from Judge as a resuscitator. But it was not Editor Anthony who thought up this smartest of stratagems. man whom an admiring fraternity in applauding was broad-browed...
Some hundred thousand dollars had been contributed to the new party's "war chest" by more than half a million persons. Suddenly they got their money back, every pence and pound of it, each contributor receiving a crisp cheque and a "personal" (mimeographed) letter from the leader of the party, the man who was to have been Prime Minister, William Maxwell Aitken, Baron Beaverbrook...
...device, dubbed by frivolous reporters "Massard's Stab Register," consists of a pair of electrified foils and a pair of electrified plastrons (chest protectors), the whole connected by delicate thread-like wires. In place of the rubber tip on an ordinary foil, is a small metallic ball and spring. Wires run up the fencer's sleeves and out through an opening in the back of his coat, trail out behind him on the mat. When the positive tip of one foil strikes the negatively charged plastron of an adversary, a gong rings, and a touch is marked...