Word: manhoods
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...stake in meeting Helen−small wonder that the temperamental Frenchwoman required a stimulant for her nerves. I am convinced that the French stars could not have reached their heights had they dissipated nor be more at home at a cafe table. If so, our examples of fine American manhood are not so clever, for the French beat them with a great handicap. Don't be a poor loser−give credit where credit is due (and between you and me what do you honestly think of our "clean" living Americans? Youth is the same the world over...
...cannot now and will not later accept compulsory arbitration. We do not propose to barter away for a mess of pottage the inherent and individual rights of the anthracite workers. Our people are anxious to work, but not at the price of their freedom and manhood...
...liberty. . . ." Dr. Smith decided that college matriculants simply are not fitted to live college life. They are, he could but conclude, just irresponsible, ill-licked cubs. They should examine themselves and try to exert their faculties, not primarily upon problems in algebra and Greek roots, but upon manhood and the wise conduct of their lives...
...Ansonia (Conn.) Centinel: "To its plan (the Harvard Crimson's) Tad Jones opposes this earnest enconium of football: 'I believe in football . . . as a developer of manhood, as a developer of all the qualities we admire. . . I hope the time will never come when the time devoted to football at Yale will be any less than it is today.' This is a sufficient reason to both the critics and the meddlers...
King Tut had achieved little of manhood when he died. He was a slim lad, slender, sapplingesque. Nothing so became him as his burial. The world's chief artificers buzzed about him. They stretched him out. His hands, as tired as a pair of autumn leaves, they folded across his breast. Upon his head they set the royal golden diadem, the eager vulture (Nekhebet), the playful serpent (Buto). From his neck they suspended amuletic idols. Pectorals of elaborate cloisonne they strewed upon his breast. A star beaten out of golden foil marked the place where his heart had been...