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...Government, alarmed by the draft's showing-that half the nation's young men are ill-toothed, nearsighted, addlepated or otherwise unfit-last week took steps to improve the physique of U.S. manhood. The start of the cure was announced by Franklin Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hernia Is No Excuse | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

...clear to everybody that Bertie was "backward, frivolous, vain." They tried sending him to Edinburgh and Oxford, to Canada, to the U.S. He planted a chestnut tree at George Washington's grave, and on one occasion, according to rumor, eluded his guardians "and indulged his abounding manhood in the bagnios of New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bertie | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

Last fall, in order to save cloth, Italy's Supreme Council of Autarchy (commission on self-sufficiency, headed by self-sufficient Benito Mussolini) urged Italian manhood to get out of long pants, get into shorts. Lest Italian manhood think them effeminate, newspapers insisted shorts were "not only hygienic but masculine and patriotic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pants Up, Pants Down | 8/18/1941 | See Source »

...replaced a veteran hatchet of war, Dame Helen Gwynne-Vaughan, 62, who typified the terrifying old guard among Britain's womanhood just as the red-faced cavalry general did Britain's manhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: BATTLE OF BRITAIN: Glamor in Arms | 8/4/1941 | See Source »

...contrast to peace, but simply another form of expression of the uninterrupted battle of nations and men. It is an expression of the highest and best in manhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Struggle of Ideas | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

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