Word: chesting
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...There is tragedy when the village bad boy dies to rescue a contemporary from drowning. The book is like a score of others, but Mr. Cobb's insight into the preadolescent intelligence or his recollection of the days immediately before the first hair curved proudly on the youthful chest is shrewder than most...
...principle of the community chest, which has been in successful operation for so considerable a time in other large cities that an explanation is superfluous, is the obvious solution, and has been so considered by the committee in addition to providing control of finances, moreover, the community chest may also serve as a powerful weapon against undesirable institutions. Although this consideration seems to have escaped the committee, it has been thoroughly established by experiment in other cities. An organization which has not received the stamp of approval of the community chest by being included in its budget may fairly...
...wide appeal to a larger number of persons, the principle of the community chest makes social service finance a relatively simple matter; and by its control of institutions, it assures the public that the money of contributors is neither misdirected nor wasted...
Luigi Golinelli, giant white-haired basso, whose locks are snowier than the fleeces of Sharon, whose voice could shake the walls of Gaza; Spartaco Morgia, dramatic tenor, with barrel chest and amber voice - a man like a hogshead of honey; Attilio Boschi, young baritone, who, it is declared, is destined to be "the second Scandiani"; the Rev. Antonio Grimaldi, basso at the Sistine Chapel for 16 years, a famed authority on ecclesiastical music; Eugenio Andriselli, adult male soprano and assistant organist at St. Peter's. In all, there are twelve singers. Their programs will include selections from -the religious...
...discussing that familiar patient, the t.b.m., Dr. Rinehart takes occasion to define a medical term: "One day, after a good dinner followed by one or two of his favorite cigars, he is seized with a pain. And such a pain. It is a stabbing through the chest as by a sword-thrust. It runs down his left arm and at the same time there is a tightness round the chest walls like the constriction of an iron band. He would scream if he could, but he cannot. Will he live to draw another full breath? Cold sweat...