Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last fortnight Attorney Will H. Latta, of Indianapolis, was killed when a train struck his automobile. Last week Attorney Latta's will left public bequests of more than $160,000,000. Yet no rich man was Attorney Latta. His total estate came only to some...
...clinic at Klausenburg, Transylvania, a girl and a man were dying, last week's despatches related. An automobile had mashed her, Rosa Jancu, fatally. He, Georg Morar, had tried to kill himself by cutting. Her blood was the only blood at the clinic that matched his. To transfuse from her would probably kill her. So the surgeons listened to her heartbeats until they stopped of their own accord. The man's heart still pulsed faintly. Quickly the surgeons transferred blood from the dead veins to the living, probably the first transfusion of its kind. The man recovered...
Some 6,000 U. S. high school students sloganed thus and similarly in a contest which ended last week. Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller Jr. had offered a prize for a phrase which would stir public sentiment against such man-made rural ugliness as "hot dog" stands, billboards...
...little maids in flaring bright dresses, a golden-banged boy in absurdly small trousers?the Sackville children played on the greensward around their great ancestral Knole House, Sevenoaks, Kent.* There John Hoppner painted their portrait, a distinguished, worldly man who found innocence a better subject than sophistication. In 1797 his picture was finished, hung in Knole House. It has been there ever since...
Masculinity characterizes the Wills game. No woman hits a ball so hard. Whenever she can she practices with a man, because "it is the best training, the men are naturally more strong, though not always so deft" Her training is strictly a personal matter. She dislikes to think of people reading of what she likes to eat (string beans, chocolate ice cream) and drink (milk). About her other likes and dislikes she is less reticent. Yellow is her favorite color (see cover). Telephone books are her pet aversion. It is hard for her to find numbers because she does...