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Word: emotionlessness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1926-1926
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...White House, ate a hearty breakfast. Then in his office in an easy chair in front of the tall south windows he read newspapers and election telegrams, placidly. Messengers came in with more despatches; he picked them up mechanically, smoking slowly. The expression on his face was as emotionless as that of a man thoughtfully perusing the telephone directory. Then William Randolph Hearst came in for luncheon, suggested that the President go to California for his vacation next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The White House Week: Nov. 15, 1926 | 11/15/1926 | See Source »

...create the sex hormones. So the individual, the eunuch, grows into a being that lacks the male secondary characteristics. Queer pads of fat develop. His hips enlarge. So too his breasts. His voice becomes a squeaky falsetto; his facial hair missing or very scant. His character is cold, emotionless, qualmless; his intelligence calculating, keen, subtle. He is not a man. He is not a woman. He is an intermediate animal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Virile Lorenz | 3/22/1926 | See Source »

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