Word: chested
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mentally Egotistical Man. His hips are forward as he leans back on his heels, stomach and chest inflated. His hands are weak, his chin raised. Over his body there is very little mental control...
Timid Man. His feet, knees, elbows and wrists are turned in. While his hand is turned out, his thumb is covered by his fingers. Often timidity is betrayed by a curled little finger. His chest is low, his head on an angle, his chin raised...
...politics. On an income of $150,000 a year, he confines his interests to champagne, roulette, a beautiful wife and numerous attractive friends. Also he takes a sparring partner with him wherever he goes, though boxing circles are more impressed by the fearsome hairiness of His Highness's chest than by the power of his punch. Lastly Prince Ibrahim has a talent for catastrophe...
...abscess in the world resides in the lower corner of the right lung of His Majesty George V. People all over the world who have ever had to have their pleural cavities drained following pleural pneumonia are vividly conscious that a channel was cut into His Majesty's chest to let the poison drain out. Fortnight ago six royal physicians descried and decided that the royal abscess was not draining properly. They announced that they would have to operate again. To calm a worried public, Court officials quickly declared that the operation would be comparatively minor...
Player Foxx, a 180-pounder just under six feet, has a chest expansion of 6½ inches. Like a majority of the Big League players, he is a small town (Sudlersville, Md.) boy. "I worked on a farm," he says, "and I am glad of it. Farmer boys are stronger than city boys. When I was 12 I could cut corn all day, help in the wheat fields, swing 200-pound bags of phosphate off a platform into a wagon. We had games on the farm to test strength and grip. A fellow had to plant both feet in half...