Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thin-faced man in dusty clothes stood last week in a courtyard near Vera Cruz. He blinked nervously before a group of photographers and then turned to a file of brown-skinned soldiers...
...daughter Muriel from the house of his octogenarian father, he was attacked by "my wife, a large, strapping woman." He pushed her aside, dodged her chauffeur, one William Kiefer (named as co-respondent in Mr. Revell's suit for divorce) and sprinted. Near 5th Avenue a burly man caught and held him. Mrs. Revell caught up and renewed her attack with nail, fist, tooth, and then had Mr. Revell arrested for assault. Said he: "The incident was a stunt on the part of my wife to embarrass me and carry out her threat to not only ruin my reputation...
...custom to break the legs of the crucified to speed Death. But Christ died on the cross. Nevertheless, nervously, impulsively, a Roman soldier pierced the body with his spear. Joseph the Arimathaean asked for the body and buried it in a tomb he had intended for himself, where no man had ever lain...
...road tar is a morsel which children like to chew. Tar contains dirt, of course, and poisons with terrific names like creosote, benzene, cyclohexane, anthracene, dianthracene, toluene, pyridine, amylene, methyl cyanide, carbon bisulphide. Tar-chewing children should be warned by the disaster which overtook a man tarring an Ohio road. As a case of industrial toxicology, the American Medical Association considered it important enough to publish in its Journal...
While the Ohio road mender had his back turned to his wagon of hot tar. scamps dumped the tar onto the road. Stifling fumes arose. The man ran to his wagon, into the noxious gases. Within a minute he fell into convulsions. A little while later he was bleeding from the mouth. Now, three years after, he is kept in a hospital. He cannot walk. He cannot feel. He writes inane and morbid poetry. He shouts out hymns for his own amusement. His wits are loose...