Word: chestful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opens next spring. First Baseman Lou Gehrig of the World Champion New York Yankees offered himself to Hollywood film producers for the role of Tarzan, hitherto acted by Swimmers Johnny Weissmuller and Buster Crabbe. Dressing up in a leopard skin for Manhattan cameramen, Yankee Gehrig threw out a hairy chest, crowed: "It may sound like a screwy idea to you guys but I'm serious. . . . I've always hustled at everything I've taken up. ... I'd give it all I have. I'd even wrestle lions." Cornered by news hawks as he boarded...
...Hutch (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Cinemaddicts who have felt that Wallace Beery's specialty of pawing at his chest, wrinkling his forehead, scuffing his toes and wiping his rubbery face with the palm of his hand, received too little footage in his previous pictures should be delighted by Old Hutch. It contains practically nothing else. Adapted by George Kelly from a Garret Smith story unearthed from the Saturday Evening Post files for February 1920, it shows what happens to a smalltown ne'er-do-well when he comes on a robber's cache of $100,000. Climax...
Five years ago Mrs. Bramy. wife of a dress peddler, mother of four, went to Dr. Brown, complaining of pain in her chest. He decided that a general infection had inflamed the thin sac called the pericardium which contains the heart and caused it to adhere to Mrs. Bramy's breast bone. Surgeon Brown excised a section of the woman's sternum and ribs together with enough rib gristle to enable him to reach into her chest and free the pericardium from its adhesions. At the same time he removed a tiny bit of pericardial tissue...
...harbour loafer either. I'm a man who's sailed the North Sea in 50 storms. . . . Who's looked death in the face many a time without hatting an eye. So you'll realise that I'm not sticking out my chest and bawling just because I've managed to get across from Grimsby to British Guiana in the Girl...
Thus Chairman Farley was able to release in Manhattan simultaneously with the Senate Committee's release in Washington a list revealing the following contributions to Maine's Republican campaign chest: Pierre S. du Pont, $5,000; Lammot du Pont, $5,000; Irenee du Pont, $5,100; Henry B. du Pont. $2,500; A. Felix du Pont. $5,000; John D. Rockefeller, $5,000; John D. Rockefeller Jr., $5,000; Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr., $3,000; Avery Rockefeller, $8,000; J. Pierpont Morgan, $5,000; Alfred P. Sloan Jr., $5.000; A. Atwater Kent...