Word: chestful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin D. Roosevelt had a date to address a high-school graduating class in northern West Virginia-at Arthurdale, the subsistence homestead community closest to her heart. But in her husband's chest welled up something which he wanted to get off to all the People. He announced that he would fill Mrs. Roosevelt's engagement, using a national radio hookup. Before he left Washington last week, newshawks knew what was on his chest: the 1938 Tax Bill, still lying unsigned, un-vetoed at the White House...
From the word Allez, 51-year-old Bourdet was fighting mad, lunged wildly at 61-year-old Bernstein's chest and abdomen. At first Bernstein took it easy, then gradually matched his opponent's aggressiveness, finally gave Bourdet a poke in the arm. This ended the fight. But not for Bourdet. Snapped he: "This is only a theatre duel." Begging in vain for another go, he finally strode fuming off the field, without shaking Bernstein's hand...
...Porte, Ind., a young woman clerk in the State employment office impatiently insisted that a young male applicant show his social security number. The applicant peeled jacket, undid shirt, showed her the number tattooed across his chest...
Professor A. C. Coolidge '87, of the History Department, director of the library, delivered a short commemorative address, after which the stone was raised, and a sealed copper chest was placed beneath...
Thereupon Harris turned to and, almost singlehanded, turned out a first edition of The Beacon. The paper looked enough and sounded enough like The Nation to be its pulp brother. In The Beacon?, columns Sydney Harris got off his chest much about Chicago he had not been able to express during his work for the Chicago dailies...