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...rule. So the Greeks send Hercules to challenge the Queen in combat and get that girdle. Hoppolyta gives it to Antiope, the mighty huntress, who loses it to Theseus, the handsome Greek warrior, while learning how a man makes love. Sapiens, let loose in the Greek camp, discovers his manhood, asserts his authority as king, and establishes for all time the dominance of masculinity...
...Harvard men are stuffed shirts, from what I've seen of them," Jimmy Dorsey said in the recent interview. The saxophonist orchestra leader got this warped picture of Cambridge manhood when he played at a House dance several years...
What possible justification can there be for the admission of this pale, sickly, bespectacled, hollow-chested and thoroughly terrifying group into the proximity of the finest in virile young American manhood? Perhaps it may be suggested that we have books that they haven't. But carrying this principle to its logical conclusion, it will soon be discovered that the undergraduates of that place on Shepard Street need Widener books. And so, from one table they will expand to two, then to the whole alcove, finally, like Attila's hordes, they will engulf the entire reading room. This female group, untouched...
Physical examinations for the draft are showing one-third of American manhood ill-toothed, ill-doctored, and ill-fed. One out of every two men inspected for military service has been rejected for ailments ranging from mouldy teeth to syphilis. Of these 900,000 physically unfit men, 200,000 have been reported by draft board medicos as readily curable. President Roosevelt last month announced a plan--not yet in effect--to have these 200,000 treated by their own doctors at government expense...
...taking mail from the trains, he was "bitten by the bug to see the country at the expense of the Pullman Company." And for the next five years, as porter on the 20th Century Limited, that went from Boston to Chicago, he matured from wide-eyed innocence to philosophical manhood. As for seeing the country, he "looked up its worst to begin with, and then came gently to its best." But whatever else came out of these years, Snowball drew one definite conclusion. He was "thoroughly convinced that beauty was struck in Chicago" (ed. note: his wife hails from Virginia...