Word: chested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fine Steinert collection of 50 antique instruments. Since then she has done similar work for Barnard College, the Beethoven Association, Cooper Union, many a private owner and John D. Rockefeller's picture-postcard Williamsburg, Va. Miss Van Buren has a notable collection of her own including a chest (set of six) of viols, one of which was owned by Handel. A thoroughgoing purist in restoring instruments, she also makes reproductions, would like nothing better than to see oldtime, easily playable instruments placed in a widespread number of homes...
...France. Last April he and his pretty young wife returned from a world cruise in time for the asparagus season. Last week, the season of his favorite vegetable having closed, he sailed to enjoy the grouse season in Scotland. Standing on the deck of the Normandie, he swelled his chest, flapped his elbows and spoke once more of the firing line: "I want a month's rest so that I can come back to help straighten out the madhouse in Washington. When I return I will stay in Washington for the winter and get on the firing line...
...adolescence. Dr. Jeffrey Charles Michael, Houston acne specialist who wrote the article, included the address he made as chairman of the skin specialists attending the American Medical Association convention in Atlantic City last June. Here was a disease that has marred to some extent the face, back and chest of every other human being who ever grew up to manhood. It has gouged ugly pits in multitudes of skins. Doctors have dealt with it for 3,200 years of recorded medical history. Yet Dr. Michael, in his two cardinal discussions of acne vulgaris, was obliged to state: "The pathogenesis...
They do know that pores of the face, chest and back, through which sebum oozes to oil the skin and hair, sometimes close up. Sebum, thus suppressed, pushes outward, forms a blackhead or a pimple...
...There was no thought of orb or crown When the single, wooden chest went down To the steering-flat, and the careless gunroom hailed him To learn by ancient and bitter use, How neither favour nor excuse, Nor aught save his sheer self henceforth availed...