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Word: chestful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opening a nation-wide drive for Community Chest funds, he announced that the Government "must more and more narrow the circle of its relief activities." warned relief agencies that "unless Federal taxes are to be greatly increased, the expenditures have to be brought within the existing tax receipts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Balanced Thinking | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

Reidy--Give 'em both barrels on this next statement, Larry. Chin up, chest out, eyes flashing righteous fire...

Author: By John J. Reldy jr., | Title: Kelley Continues Modestly As Ever In Second Episode | 10/19/1937 | See Source »

...when they make themselves the custodians of an oil-rich Rodskin's $10,000 a day estate. While the Indian democratically mingles with the boys on the grid as their star back, the quarterback, whose position he takes (only once seen without a large capital "L" on his chest) has his troubles with the coach's blonde daughter, Gloria Stuart...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON MOVIEGOER | 10/19/1937 | See Source »

...Croaked the N. Y. Herald Tribune's Isabel Paterson: ''There is no loftiness of spirit in his books, and a book must have a soul to be great." Max Eastman accused Hemingway of having "... a literary style, you might say, of wearing false hair on the chest. . . ." J. B. Priestley spoke of ". . . Mr. Ernest Hemingway's raucous and swaggering masculinity, which I am beginning to find rather tiresome. It is time some friend spoke sharply to Mr. Hemingway." The N. Y. Times's John Chamberlain asked: "Can it be that Hemingway has been writing pidgin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: All Stones End . . . | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

What the devil do gum manufacturers do? Mr. Bowman [TIME, Sept. 13] drinks beer in a topper and a bare chest. Is this the custom? What does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 11, 1937 | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

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