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Word: manly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jewelers remember him as the sallow, baldish, unhealthy looking little man who bought $2,500,000 worth of jewelry for his wife, pawned and redeemed it again and again as he traversed a career as full of ups and downs as a picket fence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Badly Run Down | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...dentists found the President in a better mood, they would have been interested, when he smiled, in his teeth. On the left side the upper molars are worn down, presumably by chewing pipes and cigars, to a peculiar slant which helped earn him his campaign sobriquet of "Beaver Man...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Testy Dentists | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...between them and all other religions of today. . . . So fundamental is the distinction between supernatural religion and Humanism, that there are those who deny that Humanism is a religion at all. . . . Humanists do not so much desire a new idea of God, as they desire a new idea of man. If Humanists were to make a creed, the first article would be: 'I believe in Man.' . . . Humanists are not only opposed to all movements, institutions and practices which tend to cramp and confine the human personality and prevent its proper development, but they are also actively engaged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Humanism | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...many a year will Germans find a statesman to take the place in world politics of Gustav Stresemann. But last week they found a man to take the late famed Foreign Minister's vacant seat in the Reichstag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Stresemann's Successor | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...man," began President Masaryk, according to Dr. Rajniss, "an old man from whose eyes the veil of political passion has long since melted. I urge the people of Hungary to listen to my proposals while I am yet alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Magnanimous Masaryk | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

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