Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fierce lightning, awful thunder. Alan despised her for the hysteria she indulged whenever her family kept her indoors from a thunder storm. Joan hated her, too, partly from jealousy, partly from nerves. But Claire, the girl Alan loved, adored Lynneth, credited her with an "elemental tenderness." And Douglas, the man engaged to marry Joan, reverenced Lynneth, white daughter of the moon. "Looking at Lynneth with her remote and crystal innocence was like seeing one of his moments take form and move through the trees in radiance." But for all her innocence, Lynneth held the household hypnotized, worked a sinister charm...
From the Statue of Liberty, in New York Harbor, jumped Ralph Gleason, aged 22. No man before him had committed suicide in this...
...Seattle, Count George Hay du Barry invented a red and white signal flag for distressed motorists. On one side appears the legend STALLED! SEND TIRE MAN; on the other SEND MECHANIC, PLEASE! HAVE A HEART!! For no other wayside dilemma has: Count du Barry prepared flags...
...Although the Colonel was an honorary title, conferred by Congress, Colonel Knox was no armchair military man. He fought in the Civil War and was wounded at Gettysburg...
...that has been written about Publisher Macfadden, he has seldom been credited for his undeniable talent for discovering and reaching new publishing markets. There were physical culturists before him, but not many physical culturists who succeeded in getting the man on the street to read about physical culture. In his group of confessional periodicals, typified by True Stories, he has reached down into an obscure stratum of society and found more than two million men and women who previously read few. if any, magazines. His tabloid Graphic, though not first in its field, out-tabloided the other tabloids and found...