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Dutifully Edward of Wales dressed himself in the scarlet and blue of the Welsh Guards, strewed medals on his chest, clapped a monumental fur busby on his head and walked round the corner from his home in York House to the entrance of St. James's Palace proper...
Pittsburgh (population: 673,800) calls its chest the Welfare Fund. Last year 60,292 citizens oversubscribed a $960.000 quota by $13,025. This year, under the guidance of busy Joseph C. Dilworth (Dilworth, Porter Steel Co.), 7,777 workers got 61,652 Pittsburghers to give $2,000 more than the $1,168,000 goal...
Headquarters. William Farnum, whose pompadour, jaw and chest expansion were once what all the young ladies of the time covertly admired, is currently to be seen on Broadway, mature, heavy, but still indubitably heroic. As a police inspector he is forced to inquire into the double murder of his own wife and her paramour. For a while suspicion falls on Mr. Farnum's daughter (by an earlier marriage), but this pretty thing is no more a murderess than she seems. When the case has been solved, you are left with two striking thoughts: 1) A convenient and unusual thing...
...Fleming house to bedevil its occupants. Lewis Collier, Alloway's postmaster and band leader, vainly tried to quell his bandsmen. Out of the house stormed Mrs. Fleming. "I've had enough of this!" she screamed. Drawing a gun from her bosom she shot Postmaster Collier through the chest...
...describes the general external characteristics in the adult male which distinguish the Mountain from the Coast Gorilla as, "a longer palate and often a narrower skull, a thicker pelage or belt, shorter arms and longer legs, large amount of black hair, and prominent fleshy callosity on the chest...