Word: chested
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fleming house to bedevil its occupants. Lewis Collier, Alloway's postmaster and band leader, vainly tried to quell his bandsmen. Out of the house stormed Mrs. Fleming. "I've had enough of this!" she screamed. Drawing a gun from her bosom she shot Postmaster Collier through the chest...
...describes the general external characteristics in the adult male which distinguish the Mountain from the Coast Gorilla as, "a longer palate and often a narrower skull, a thicker pelage or belt, shorter arms and longer legs, large amount of black hair, and prominent fleshy callosity on the chest...
...inexplicable rubbish about reconnoitring the village, the old Sabakin, the swindling representative, the bloody Tsar Nicholas, Isabella and other things, that the women were absolutely tongue-tied with fright and respect, and the driver exclaimed in a drunken voice, 'Gee up,' and clapped his arms across his chest with sheer delight...
...State, sponsor of the Kellogg Peace Pact, was given the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor, highest award of France, by Paul Claudel. French Ambassador to the U. S. Said Ambassador Claudel: "This red and flaming badge of honor could find no better place than across your chest...
Obstreperous journalists, undergraduate and metropolitan, might well undergo a certain amount of chest expansion at the news that one of their chance shots at improving the existent system of college athletics, has taken effect. Massachusetts Agricultural College is the proving ground: the goat is basketball, or possibly the captain of that sport, who is to give the idea of student coaching a workout this season. If the basketball teams from the Amherst college had been engaged in rolling up records for consecutive losses, this decision might be condoned as a last desperate measure before the oblivion of a dropped sport...