Word: chestful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strict cash-politics basis Mr. Davies was not entitled to the job. He gave only $17,500 to the Democratic campaign chest this year, whereas his rival for the job, Curtis Bok, esthetic son of the late great editor of the Ladies' Home Journal, gave $30,000. Moreover, Curtis Bok once worked in a Soviet candy factory and now is judge of an orphans court in Philadelphia. After election, however, Mr. Bok was let know that Franklin Roosevelt did not want any amateur diplomats in big jobs during present international complications. Young Mrs. Bok was given...
Paulino Uzcudun, the oldtime Spanish boxer with the hairy chest and concrete chin, was reported busy with a speedboat last week rescuing White civilians from Red ports. "My only regret," said he, cuddling a submachine gun, "is that in war I can't use my fists." Spain's No. 1 football forward, Ricardo Zamora, was throwing hand grenades last week and various bull fighters were engaged en both sides at Madrid. "The Great Belmonte" had stopped fighting bulls to become a rural policeman...
Consider, said Dr. Gregory, the horse. The legs are like towers at each end of a bridge, the backbone is an arched cantilever system suspended from the towers, the chest and abdomen constitute the "live load." At the front end is an apparatus which can be raised and lowered like a derrick (the neck), and which car ries a grappling mechanism like a clam dredge or steam shovel (the mouth). Thanks to muscles which act as motors, tendons which transmit tension and skeletal parts which serve as levers and fulcrums, the tower-like legs may change into powerful jointed springs...
...Tomb in the Red Square, and all Russia knows that the few men permitted to stand there with J. Stalin during a popular review are always his prime favorites of the moment. Next, the highest Soviet decoration, the Order of Lenin, was last week pinned on the barrel-chest of Comrade Litvinoff by Stalin's frontman, twinkly-eyed old Russian President Mikhail Kalinin...
...died Dr. Albert Abrams, San Francisco millionaire whom officials of the American Medical Association called "the outstanding quack . . . the most polished charlatan ... of the century." Abrams made lasting contributions to the science of medicine by discovering that when the skin of the chest is irritated, the heart and lungs contract slightly. He also discovered that a clout on the spine may reduce a disabling bulge in the aorta. On the other hand, Abrams claimed without acceptable evidence that the human body was an electrochemical machine which produced certain vibrations when healthy, certain other vibrations when sick. He claimed that...