Word: chested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eighth summer season with eight weekly concerts, the first under Conductor Henry Hadley and others under guest conductors including Richard Lert, Alfred Hertz, Fritz Reiner, Ossip Gabrilowitsch. Another development near San Francisco was the organization, just across the Golden Gate from the city, of the Marin County Musical Chest, financed by subscriptions averaging 25? from members of Marin County's mixed population of esthetes and Portuguese dairy farmers...
...German listener is uplifted and soars in joy. "Germany can no longer be ranked as a second class power!" cries Hitler. "Be proud of Germany!" shouts Dr. Goebbels with his curious but effective gesture of clenching both fists close to his bosom as though about to tear his chest. "Be proud of a Fatherland for which millions sacrificed their lives! Strike a rogue more than once! Believe in the future-then only can you be a victor!" Profoundly the resurgent German does believe in the Fatherland's future and nothing helps him more than the Goebbels-Hitler method...
Last week a lean, ragged, jabbering man fell on his knees before the village church at Coggia. A cross dangled on his chest, a crude crown of twigs sat on his tangled hair. Hoarse with a stale fear, he shouted. "What have I done?" A peasant saw that it was Andre Spada, alone and half-witted. Peasants tugged at his elbow to make him rise and hide from the police. Spada pushed them away, rose and wandered about in a daze, jabbering to himself until gendarmes took him away...
...Harper Sibleys of Rochester, N. Y. Son of Hiram W. who helped found Western Union Telegraph Co. and was its first president, Harper Sibley owns ranches in Alberta and California, Sibley Farms in Illinois. He is in banking, lumber and coal, gives time to civic enterprises like the Community Chest and the Genesee Hospital. A lean, bronzed outdoor man, able tennist at 48, Harper Sibley is a member of the potent National Council of the Episcopal Church and a friend of Rochester's Bishop David Lincoln Ferris. His slim, gracious wife, Georgiana Farr Sibley, mother...
...garageman found Old Man Ridley. His curly white beard was torn out in great patches, one ear was gone, his head had been bashed many times with the swivel stool. In the ghostly underground quiet, Lee Weinstein was found. He had been shot seven times in the stomach, chest, neck and face. None in the neighborhood had seen the murderer come...