Word: chesting
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...orchestra to start over again. But with his second attempt he had mastered his vocal powers like a seasoned artist. Manfully he proceeded to display a firm, dark-hued tenor voice. It had no great volume, no ringing top notes. It had evidently been strained, misused. His sunken chest and relaxed abdomen were witnesses of faulty breathing which must have gone on for years. But the tones of his middle register, though slightly nasal, had clarity, directness. His legato was not languishing but neither did it have the vibrato so regrettably common among inexperienced singers...
...Clenching his fists, pouting his chest, Secretary of War Hurley barked at a Philadelphia audience: "If Governor Roosevelt could put into force one-tenth of the promises he has made, he would not only deprive the people of their control of the Government but he would establish an autocracy with himself as the autocrat...
...horde came up against that frigid Old Etonian, one-armed Sir Edward Hilton Young, His Majesty's Minister of Health, who was wounded at Zeebrugge Mole in 1918?a fact of which he is so proud that like Admiral Nelson he pins his empty right sleeve forward on his chest...
...nothing ingratiating about Escudero's performance that evening. He strutted about like a cock in smart, skin-tight costumes which Artist Pablo Picasso had designed for him. He did amazing footwork to a dozen complicated rhythms. He conversed with his castanets, brutally, insolently, insinuatingly. He swelled out his chest and shot meaningful glances at his partners, Carmela and Carmita. He clucked with his tongue, sniffed with his nose, even snapped a fingernail accompaniment to one of his dances...
...October Atlantic Monthly is a suggestion on the football finance problem by President Henry Smith Pritchett of the Carnegie Foundation for Advancement of Teaching. The problem, says he, is "to substitute some other sport for football that will bring just as much revenue into the college chest while not exacting the toll in young lives and lowered college ideals. . . . The substitute must provide at least three things: it must be a great spectacle which will attract crowds of paying sightseers, it must invoke at least the semblance of college rivalry, and it must be so ordered that graduates and undergraduates...