Word: chested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President, cigaret holder in hand, sat back, puffed out his chest robustly, grinned at the newshawks. What, he demanded, did they think? The answer was a self-conscious titter...
Three-quarters of a century ago in Portland. Maine, a fierce form of religious fervor overtook a hardshelled Yankee named Andrew J. Johnson. Seeking out his young brother-in-law, Johnson accused him of writing songs in league with the Devil and, thrusting out his self-righteous chest, shouted: "I am bound to be a soldier in the army of the Lord! Glory! glory, Hallelujah!" Thomas Brigham Bishop, a farm-boy from the village of Wayne, jokingly set his brother-in-law's tirade to music. As popular as any popular song, Glory, Glory, Hallelujah was sung...
...sooner had J. Edward Jones got that off his chest than there dropped into his lap, unsought and unexpected, an amazing opportunity to put SEC on the spot. One William A. Rabell, a $6,500-a-year assistant chief investigator on the SEC staff who had been working on the Jones case, telephoned Mr. Jones at his Scarsdale home, offering to sell out for $50,000. He promised to reveal how SEC was distorting figures, to show Mr. Jones how he could riddle SEC's evidence, to "play dumb" if necessary, when called as an SEC witness...
...Georgia Street Receiving Hospital in Los Angeles to be weighed and examined, as he had been on March 30 when he began his beer diet test. He had just let the 7,000-lb. beer truck loaded down with the entire Hollywood baseball team ride over his chest to indicate his sustained vitality. Dr. Sebastian reported Gough physically fit in every respect, whereupon the Legionnaire strongman was whisked to the Los Angeles Times' Cooking School to address more than 1,000 women for a period of nearly two hours...
More than 150 years before, Pompeo Leoni had numbered them. Some time in the 15 years after Mr. Dalton opened the chest, somebody cut out and presumably destroyed about 180 of the 779 drawings. One of these, it is known, was a picture of a handsome young man embracing a hideous crone. The surviving drawings include a superb series of anatomical studies of men, not one of a woman. Kenneth Clark indicates, does not say, that someone in the prudish, provincial court of George III found the 180 in bad taste...