Word: chested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt," to the Forgotten Man. The Forgotten Man himself, a nondescript in an ill-fitting suit, wearing an undersized brown derby, is presented in the flesh. He is impersonated by foolish-faced Don Barclay, who rises to sing about himself in the opening scene: With hope in his chest And an egg on his "vest- With pride in his glance And a shine on his pants- Uncle Sam needs a man who can take it! Comedian Barclay has little to do throughout the performance save appear stupid, but Rex Weber and Impersonator Albert Carroll are called upon often...
...nickname ("Iron Man") derives from his physique and stamina on the stump. In the Senate he shuns frock-coats, fancies business suits of a reddish-brown worsted. In debate he is a ready speaker with a strong clear voice. When he rises at his desk, he throws out his chest and stiffens his shoulders like a fighter going into action. His formal speeches, meaty with facts, are carefully prepared in advance. His mind and tongue both move slowly. Personally pleasant, he has a serious temperament that bars "nigger jokes" and Cobb-like stories from his remarks...
...sins of society, political corruption, plutocratic greed-stirred controversy, made him a best seller. He had finished 20-odd books when one day in 1911 a crazed violinist named Fitzhugh Coyle Goldsborough. who imagined the novelist had pilloried his sister in a story, pumped six bullets into Phillips' chest, abruptly ended this life-with-a-purpose...
There is another method which does not impose so severe a test of academic virtue, but which may accomplish much. That is, to substitute some other sport for football that will bring just as much revenue into the college chest while not exacting the tell in young lives and lowered college ideals for which football is now, in large measure, responsible. For the cost of commercialized football is to be reckoned, not only in the present, but in the future lives of young men whose ideals of the intellectual life have been shaped under its influence. Boys start...
...Manhattan William Bound, seaman, said "No" to a beggar. Police later found Seaman Bound lying on the sidewalk with stab wounds in chest, arm and shoulder...