Word: chested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...told her I was going back to Elizabeth at dance. She got very mad. She threw a rock and hit me in the chest. She cried she was going to tell on me. Then she got a knife out of her bag and tried to cut me. I threw her down and took.the knife. I hit her with a rock and cut her neck. . . . Then she got up and walked few steps, then fell down. Then I felt very bad. I cried. I went to horse and made horse travel fast away from...
...dramatized her adventures. Minna Craucher kept up her spying, was jailed three times for fraud. She knew a great deal about the Lapuan movement and at the beginning of the revolt, when it was discovered that the Finnish government had a complete list of contributors to the Lapuan war chest, Finns looked curiously at Minna Craucher. Last week they found her hunched over a desk with a soft-nosed bullet in her brain. Police inspectors turned thoughtful eyes on General K. Martt Wallenius, Lapuan leader...
Last week died N'Gi, famed gorilla of the Washington zoo. Ill two weeks with a chest cold, he was kept alive in an oxygen tent until one lung gave out and he succumbed to "general collapse, weakness and total loss of appetite." N'Gi was five years old, had no known living relatives. He lived longer than any other gorilla had ever lived in captivity in the U. S. His body was taken to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore; his brain will be kept in the Smithsonian Institution, beneficiary of a $3,000 insurance policy...
...Three years later Dr. Gustav Killian succeeded in safely running a metal tube into a patient's lung and peering down the bore. Just as Elias Howe perfected the sewing machine by putting the hole at the front end of the needle, Dr. Jackson simplified throat and chest investigations by putting a tiny electric light at the front end of the tube which he saw Dr. Killian demonstrate in Philadelphia. Thus he could clearly see the smallest details of dark recesses, and reproduce them in drawings of exquisite details. (He is notably skillful at freehand drawing.) If he could...
...priest forces Peter to let him come home. Fergus has at last caught on to Peter. He keeps a quarter of a mile distant from him whenever they walk the road to town. One day he catches up with his brother-a bull is kneeling on his crushed chest. The shock of Peter's death awakens the ulcer in Fergus' stomach, its starfish of pain begins to spread. He takes some drink to ease it, dies dreaming of dead friends and the sea. The Author. Englishman Leonard Alfred George Strong's first literary effort was a Chaucerian...