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The active day began with the "Macfadden Bed Exercise," in which each mate turned outward on the double bed and put the limbs through slashing, scissor movements, meanwhile straining the torsos inward. There followed calisthenics before the open window, dumbbell exercises, headstands and one-legged squatting exercises. The body was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Life with a Genius | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

De Staël's "words" are masonry-like slabs of paint troweled on to canvas. His biggest picture weighs 250 lbs. unframed, and his smallest, something more than a gym-class dumbbell. Each colored slab fits its neighbors as snugly as a stone in a wall. A mound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Say It with Slabs | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

Wynn had promised to bring to TV "something old and something new, but nothing borrowed and nothing blue." In his opening telecast, there were a few borrowings (e.g., the ancient gag of casually lifting an outsized dumbbell from the straining hand of a strongman), and one skit, if not blue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Something Old, Something New | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

Through all the hullabaloo moves O'Casey himself, an ex-laborer who burns with a hot, proletarian fire. He is poor as a church mouse and still, at 35, such "innocent gaum" (dumbbell) that when he gets a check for one of his first plays he doesn't...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gaum to the Last | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

If that is good news to our enemies, I am certainly a dumbbell. However, the Brain Trust in Washington has decreed that Dumbbell Americans like myself should not have any news of the war until all the rest of the world knows what has happened.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 11, 1942 | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

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