Word: chest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chests are the result of Portia's father's dying instructions as to how his daughter must choose a husband. Each suitor must choose a chest--one is made of gold, one of silver and one of lead. To aid the suitors, each chest has inscribed on it a cryptic clue--the suitor who is able to decipher the clues will win Portia's hand...
...continued firing. Pausing only long enough to pack fresh clips into his two semiautomatic pistols -- a Glock 17 and a Ruger P-89 -- he worked his way methodically around the rectangular, beige-colored hall. Cool and deliberate, he felled most of his victims point- blank in the head or chest, sometimes reaching under tables where many diners had huddled and flattened themselves on the gray carpet...
...Fogg, I kind of gave up, it was so hard to socialize because it was so crowded and noisy," he said. "We're not dressed up for this. [Rudenstine is] here with his chest hairs out of his shirt...
...result is an Eddie Murphy parody: "What this little girl need, I say, is a hot brick in her bed and a mustard plaster on her chest and old Rebekah rubbing out the chill from her bones, with a milk toddy and a talk with Jesus to finish the cure. I done talk with Jesus while I rub, and He bring you back like I knowed He would. Lord, I tell Him, this ain't no real work like Lazarus, this here is just a little girl feeling poorly...
There is no sensationalism here. Hepburn may not be her own Boswell, but neither is she Kitty Kelley. "There's the bedroom," a guide to Hepburn's life might say. "And there's the bed, and there's the chest of drawers, and there's the vanity. They had a great old time here, and it was fun. Ladies and gentlemen, this way, please...