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Word: leopardskins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1939-1939
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...offer (customers get them after they have paid up all of a $20 fee for lessons), stop stating that his course relieves skin diseases and constipation, tone down his claims that he can make his customers look something like himself ("World's Most Perfectly Developed Man" in a leopardskin loincloth). Hopping mad, Strongman Atlas gritted: "Why don't they leave me alone with all the important work I got to do in the world? I really think I'm doing the cleanest work of any man livin' today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 13, 1939 | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

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