Word: chesting
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Soon from behind the closed office door came angry voices, Harry Barck's shout: "That's all there is to it. Next!" But the door did not open. When an assistant and Patrolman Carmody opened it, they found Harry Barck clutching his chest, his last client standing white-faced near the wall. Ironical was the fact that during the interview a postman had delivered an $8 relief check at Joseph Scutellaro's house, more ironical, the weapon with which Joseph Scutellaro, by his own confession, had dealt a mortal wound: the long spike on which Poormaster Barck...
...were worth. Part of it went to charities. The latter practice has been a source of a great deal of embarrassment since I became a private citizen. As long as I was President, for example, I sent to the San Francisco Welfare Board [presumably Publisher Scott meant the Community Chest] a check every year for $10,000 from my salary. . . . But the folks in San Francisco got in the habit of thinking that was my regular contribution, and have asked me for it every year since...
...young gentleman glanced at his reflection again and expanded his chest to a neat 32. Then, sliding into his well-pressed reversible, he announced...
...mean only one thing-spending. Realists in Washington felt morally sure last week that unless business picked up in the spring the Administration program for dealing with depression would finally emerge as pump priming. A shot of inflation had worked once, and the needle was still in the medicine chest...
...circumstances. Graziano got very angry, and in the resultant brawl a giant Negro called "Smiling Joe" Thomas was stabbed in the heart. Smiling Joe, who is 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighs 220 pounds, was rushed to a hospital at Kearny, N. J., where doctors cut through his chest wall, opened the pericardium or heart envelope so that the heart lay visibly beating before their eyes, and delicately extracted a three-inch piece of broken knife blade. They took care to let no blood rush out, quickly closed the heart wound with three stitches...