Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...occasion called attention to the fact that Senator Warren, besides being the oldest Senator, had established a new duration record. No man in U. S. history can match his 36½ years of Senate service. It was, however, not yet a non-stop record. Senator Warren "took off" on his first Senate flight on Dec. 1, 1890 as one of Wyoming's first pair of Senators. He was obliged to "land to refuel" politically for two years (1893-95) when a deadlock in the Wyoming legislature on selecting a Senator reused a vacancy. The second Warren flight began March...
Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone, Chicago gangman now jailed for one year in Philadelphia, once met Charles B. Cochrane, famed London theatre man. Last week in London Manager Cochrane said: "I asked Capone if he were going to see a certain musical show. He replied that he never went to musical shows and that his favorite dramatists are George Bernard Shaw, Noel Coward and Shakespeare...
...Since Heavyweight Champion Tunney retired (August 1928), and Arch-promoter Rickard died (January 1929), and Onetime-champion Dempsey went vaguely into promoting and got himself talked about for night-life and a chorus-girl (TIME, June 10), the chance has grown more and more solidly golden for some young man to smash his way forward and, while satisfying the popular demand for a Greatest Fighter of Them All, have a good time and amass a fortune...
...training in Lakewood, N. J., on what is normally a stud farm. The finishing touches were being applied to his style ? a short left hook which many called vicious; the dempseyesque "weaving" which looks so well in the ring and keeps the other man guessing. Chiefly it is in the Schmeling right that the Schmeling might resides. It is swift, potent, and from it came all the early German knock outs which gave Schmeling fame and ideas. Black, red and yellow German flags fluttered all over the Lakewood camp because Herr Schmeling never forgets that he is a German...
...publication this slim volume of tristful poems on the day, last December, before she met her sudden death from a paralytic stroke (TiME, Dec. 24). She had found the title in John Donne: "But, because Angels could not propagate, nor make more Angels, he enlarged his love in making man, that so he might enjoy all natures at once, and have the nature of Angels, and the nature of earthly Creatures, in one Person...