Word: chest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Westminster Kennel Club show; later learned that her son was alive and well, that the telegram had been a fake. This year Exhibitor Madeline Frank's collie, Black Pirate, lay down on his bench, vomited, and after a convulsion of his sleek body, ruffled with white at the chest, closed his eyes and died. Exhibitor Frank said she was sure he had been poisoned. Aside from this incident the show went on with proper dignity. Amid the smell of chlorine that effaces the natural smell of dogs, flanked by rows of booths where biscuits, whips, brushes, blankets, Spratts food...
...bands simultaneously struck up the Himno Nacional Mexicano ("Mexicans! to the cry of war . ."). Detectives and police stalked up and down the rows of seats looking for possible assassins. Entered portentously the President-Elect, Pascual Ortiz Rubio, large-toothed and smiling, a green, white and red sash across his chest, accompanied by his predecessor, Emilio Fortes...
...personable Englishman. Her lover is a Latin cabaret dancer. She goes to his rooms in the night, succumbs for the last time to his tender voice and hands, and in the early dawn, when he is less persuasive, poisons him with strychnine filched from her father's medicine chest. It is all scrupulously planned to give the realistic, factual impression that such things can be. That is the trouble with...
Bathroom Merger. On many Prophylactic toothbrushes has been spread toothpaste made by the Lambert Co. Likewise on many a Prophylactic shaving brush has been squeezed Lambert's shaving cream. And in many a medicine chest Prophylactic hairbrushes repose side by side with bottles of Lambert's Listerine and boxes of Lambert's throat tablets. Last week a merger was announced between Lambert Co. and Prophylactic Brush Co., on terms of one share of Lambert for two of Prophylactic. Although Lambert's $5,500,000 total assets are not double Pro-phy-lac-tic's $4,032,000, Lambert's high...
Garet Garrett, 51, able onetime journalist, prolific writer on finance, politics, economics, was dining in a Manhattan restaurant when a trio of gunmen entered. Mr. Garrett, small, confronted one of them, was shot three times (chest, shoulder, hip). At a detective, who queried him at the hospital about the possibly private motive for the shooting, Mr. Garrett is said to have shied a small porcelain cuspidor...