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...with testes, that the physician deems it best for psychological reasons that she continue life as a female despite her male glands. A case history reported by Dr. Emil Novak, Johns Hopkins gynecologist: A college girl of 19, considered normal in childhood, had grown tall (6 ft. i in.), angular, flat-chested, hairy, deep-voiced. Examination revealed no womb, a rudimentary vagina, an overdeveloped clitoris, male gonads. Dr. Novak saw at once that it was impossible to adapt the clitoris for male activity. Moreover, the patient had a strong, deep-rooted feminine psychology to upset which he thought would...
...only to dance it." To drum & cymbal accompaniment she danced in 1919 before an audience of the sick and neurasthenic at a Swiss Kurhaus. She looked scrawny and underfed, but she had developed her muscular control almost to perfection, danced with a strange violence, twisted herself to make harsh angular patterns, staring into space as if she saw no audience. The neurasthenics liked her, and so did many a healthy German who saw her frequently thereafter. Some were baffled by her meaning, but her gymnastics appealed to all. prompted the vogue of Tanzgymnastik, the physical culture drive which swept Germany...
...learned from the passenger car industry, appeal to even the most hard-boiled operator. Streamlining is a feature of most modern trucks, not because it offers any material economy at average truck speeds but simply because a pleasantly bulbous monster with plenty of chromium sells faster than a dull, angular one. Cabs are comfortable, smartly finished, scientifically ventilated, and more of them have been shoved forward over the engine. Performance has been stepped up but SAFETY is now the watchword. A good truck will stop faster than a light roadster, and while pleasure car accidents have increased nearly...
Abruptly taken off the sailing schedule last April, the angular old four-stacker has since been held at Southampton in hopes that Italy would buy her for a troop ship. Last week Italy did buy the Hamburg-American Resolute, showed no interest in the Olympic. Regretfully, Cunard White Star officials invited prospective buyers of her fittings, put her on the scrapping list...
First president of the union was Maria Gonzalez. A tall, angular woman of 29 notably lacking in sex appeal, she operates a room or as she prefers to call it a "ship" within Mexico City's tolerance zone. Loudly last week she issued her strumpet call...