Word: chested
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your sense of values. Their absence was reflected in the names of the various nines--Dew Drops, Rubber Neeks, Jumbos, Lobsters, Boiler Makers, Minced Chickens, Fussers, Rounders, High Balls, Wash Bottles, Dropped Eggs, etc., etc. It is hard to be a hero with such a name across your chest...
...must to all men, Death came last week to Eugene Sandow, aged 58, chest expansion 14 inches...
...judges, before a crowd that had torn down the side doors of the Royal Aquarium to get a look at him, Sandow met Samson. Samson began by bending an iron bar over arms, calf and neck. Sandow copied him. Next Samson burst a wire cable wound around his chest. Sandow burst its fellow. Samson snapped a chain on the muscles of his arm. The chain was too small for Sandow. He called for his big dumbbell. The greatest moment of his life had come...
...Born 1841, son of the famed poet-doctor of the same name, Oliver Wendell Holmes served three years in the Civil War as an officer of the 20th Massachusetts Volunteers, was wounded in the chest at Ball's Bluff, in the neck at Antietam, in the foot at Fredericksburg. He served 20 years as Associate and later Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, before being called to the U. S. Supreme Court by President Roosevelt...
...Paris, "Antoine the Knife Thrower," notorious apaché, was persuaded by the police to explain how he had managed to erase from his chest two gorgeous tattooed designs seen upon him when last arrested. Sepia, charcoal and cinnabar bite deep. Science has failed to discover how to blench their mordant effects. Antoine's recipe, reluctantly yielded: pour concentrated tannic acid upon the illuminated parts, inject it into the skin by close punctures with needles, rub lightly over with a crayon of silver nitrate. With the thick black scab, off comes the tattooing...