Word: chested
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Florence, Italy, in a chamber of the Villa Palmieri, where Boccaccio is supposed to have spun out his ingenious Decameron, an old gentleman lay very sick abed. Seventy-five years were on his back. On his chest there was bronchial pneumonia. On his heart, heavier than years or sickness, there was black despair...
...want Dempsey!" declared Tunney in the press. Undoubtedly, if Champion William Harrison Dempsey returns to the ring, Tunney will be his opponent, for Champion Dempsey envisages little difficulty in defeating the blushing young Marine. But there is another pugilist-one whose either hand is like a demijohn, whose chest protrudes as if he had fed on thunderbolts. This fighter (Harry Wills), with sweat in his face and a red rose in his buttonhole, was introduced to the Manhattan multitude before the Tunney-Gibbons fight began...
...innumerable times defeated Willie Ritola, Joie Ray (TIME, July 28, Jan. 19 et seq.)-a Nurmi like the After, of the patent-medicine advertisements. While he ran, they sat voiceless, staring at a Nurmi whose legs churned up and down, whose shoulders rolled, whose chest heaved-one who unmistakably resembled that unhappy journeyman of the piles, hookworm, gallstones, liver complaint, kidney trouble, Bright's disease, lost manhood-poor Before. They saw him, with a desperate display of iron willpower, set a pace that cost him anguish and troubled not at all Runner Helffrich, who loped behind until...
...tube beginning at the lower termination of the pharynx, passing through the neck and chest behind the windpipe to join the stomach; the esophagus...
...cavities of every cabaret tenor who could boast a nose, caroled by housewives at their tubs and business men at their shaving. Before the echoes of the blatant dirge had been quite relegated to that mortuary of all songs - the monkey-organ - certain tenors were beginning to thud their chests in the press. To compare many with Caruso is, of course, absurd. But there are, in Manhattan, two Italian gentlemen striving for the place of "leading tenor of the Metropolitan." For several seasons, these two have vied with each other; and still some operagoers will emphatically murmur: "Giovanni Martinelli," others...