Word: manly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Send the Man Away." At first, his institute was only a single bungalow. "Our front verandah served as classroom and laboratory, our back verandah as dining room and dairy." But the news of what was done there soon began to spread. The big, smiling "Padre Sahib" had turned barren and eroded acres into rich meadows of wheat. He taught the villagers how to plow and irrigate their crops. He set up a department of agricultural chemistry, and a home economics course for women...
...cooking nettles. Ireland's patron saint is said to have "blessed this prickly plant which we despise or don't even recognize as it grows around us . . . He had known it by its romantic name of Ivar's Daughter, and he blessed it as useful to man and beast. Gather young nettles for yourself in March of early spring. By all means wear gloves. Serve them as fresh vegetables...
...rapture. Above her decolletage, as bare as a lie and as bold as fashion, sparkled a small cascade of diamonds-or what looked like diamonds. Her slender, black-gloved hand gripped a black cigarette holder from which, now & again, she flicked a trace of ash with gracious disdain. A man's voice cooed...
...Just enjoy the whole thing," said the man. "Now let's have some major action here, some minor action there . . . That's quite good . . . Go on now, really moving . . . Go right on . . . Yes, yes . . . let the action transfer to the whole body . . . Relax the shoulders . . . Hollow the chest . . . That's wonderful, wonderful! . . ." The voice became slightly breathless with excitement : "Now just gently . . . close your mouth please . . . Go on now, really moving . . . Yes, yes, YES! . . . That's so beautiful...
...harsh facts of life, and invented dread new diseases (B.O., Office Hips, Halitosis). They found that endorsements by real people, from tobacco auctioneers to movie stars, were astoundingly successful sales plugs. ("Fifty million women a week see movies," explained one adman. "They see these dames always get their man, so they want to use Lux soap...