Word: manly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pleased and proud at having contributed a man so well-qualified on all counts, the nobles of Al Malaikah Temple blew into Chicago last weekend. With them they brought 20,000 Harold Lloydish hornrimmed spectacles for their brethren to wear. Chicago citizens blinked. In hotels and bars, along the streets, everywhere, middle-aged men in red fezzes all began to present the same face. The Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine began to assume a familiar native character-"quiet, normal, boyish, clean, sympathetic, not impossible to romance...
...steam-bath heat of the Lexington, Ky. federal courtroom last week, fat, whip-brained Edward Fretwell Prichard Jr. sat with his eyes closed and his hands clutching the arms of his chair. A distinguished witness, perhaps the most respected man in Bourbon County, was addressing the court...
...real mystery was still not solved. Why should anyone bother to forge a piddling 254 ballots in overwhelmingly Democratic Bourbon County? Why should brilliant Ed Prichard, a man with a future, try to pull a clumsy fix that would give pause to the lowliest ward heeler...
...laws of my country as set down in our beautiful Constitution and Bill of Rights, to those communities which obey these laws, to my fellow citizens, fellow progressives, and friends here in my country and all over the world who think, feel, and work for the equality of man...
This confusion arose from some characteristics of 20th Century man: his materialism, his clumsiness in dealing with spiritual ideas, and his bitter and understandable disappointment at the poverty that still surrounds him in spite of the technological promise of plenty...