Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prince has been a chief factor in destroying my republicanism. I departed from my revolutionary opinions because the Prince departed from the orthodox conduct of royalty. He has broken the whole tradition of royalty and has made the British throne the safest in the world and himself the safest man in England. He is today the chief advocate of social reform in England. A year ago this statement would have met with hooting and indignation at any labor meeting, but now would receive cheers...
Last week all the southern gentlemen in South Africa were incensed when Jaerl Nafte was convicted of manslaughtering Sixpence and sentenced not only to seven years' imprisonment but to receive ten lashes at the whipping post. Never before had a white man been sentenced to be kibokoed in South Africa for kibokoing a blackamoor. Irate Protestant editors called Catholic Judge Saul Solomon, K. C, who imposed the sentence, "negrophilist...
...Hobgoblins also looked very much like men. They were one or two inches taller than the average learned man in Philadelphia last week. The younger ones were slender. All had big hips and small chests, long legs, short arms, slim hands, feet, toes, fingers. Most were baldheaded, most wore eyeglasses. The eyes, deep-set, showed high intelligence. But most eyes showed the shiftiness of neurasthenia, sometimes the glitter of insanity. They all had high, brainy foreheads, thin skulls, prominent narrow noses, prominent chins, small mouths, rotten, few and irregular teeth. Faces were pimply, blotched and lined from organic disease...
...April evening in Manhattan five years ago, a slight, aquiline-featured man returned from a theatre to his room. No sooner had he crossed the threshold than lines of anguish twisted across his face and he fell dead from a heart attack. His death was unforeseen, but many of his friends believed that his health had been gravely impaired during the investigation of alleged construction faults in Nebraska's new $9,000,000 state capitol at Lincoln. That building, the friends claimed, was Architect Goodhue's sovereign design, imbued with all his prowess and pride. To hear...
Surprise shivered the book world last week, when the winner of the annual $1,000 (plus publicity) Pulitzer Prize for the best novel of 1928 was unofficially revealed to be a novel called Victim and Victor, by a man named John Rathbone Oliver. Wise literary prophets had been forecasting winners and raising authorial hopes, but none had mentioned Victim and Victor. It was a literary dark horse blacker than night...