Word: chesting
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...Pittsburgh's Presbyterian Hospital Surgeon Charles M. Watson and his surgeon-son, James Rose Watson, swiftly ripped the left side of the butcher boy's chest open. Inside they could see blood pouring from the punctured heart into the pleural cavity wherein the left lung lay deflated...
...parturient woman was bleeding to death from a Caesarean section, her life had been saved by transfusion with blood drained from her abdomen. With the idea of trying to do the same with the wounded butcher boy, the surgeons sopped wads of cheesecloth into the bloody hollow of his chest, wrung them out in a glass pitcher. Thus they quickly recovered almost a quart of blood...
...miners voted to "go forward with Roosevelt, fighting under his banner for re-election." As "evidence of our sincerity of purpose," they authorized the executive board to dip into the general war chest "in support of this program...
...Very rotten taste, you know, mistaking a police station for the Trocadero." Apologizing in New York for the short comings of his sonnet on the death of King George V,* England's sad, frail Poet Laureate John Masefield explained that it was written while he had a bad chest cold, scrawled out with his left hand because California handshakers had disabled his right. The Hecksher Foundation for Children launched a drive for winter relief funds in New York City with a poem composed by chipper, white-bearded Philanthropist August Hecksher, 87. Excerpt: The stars, the stars shine brighter, Search...
...exhibiting and describing them. Since a Chicago bank once mistook him for a bank bandit, he has carried an identification card with photograph & finger prints. Said Mrs. Goodenough: "I have decided when he comes back just to take time off and let him get it off his chest...