Word: muscularity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that she could feel herself "as one of the primal things, unable to speak life, only to dance it." To drum & cymbal accompaniment she danced in 1919 before an audience of the sick and neurasthenic at a Swiss Kurhaus. She looked scrawny and underfed, but she had developed her muscular control almost to perfection, danced with a strange violence, twisted herself to make harsh angular patterns, staring into space as if she saw no audience. The neurasthenics liked her, and so did many a healthy German who saw her frequently thereafter. Some were baffled by her meaning, but her gymnastics...
...need of relief is bullnecked, freckle-browed Reginald Marsh, whose two panels, one showing muscular workmen loading mail from spiral chutes to a waiting train, the other of an ocean liner transferring mail to a tender in New York harbor, were the first to be completed, set up and accepted in the new Washington Post Office Department Building in Washington...
...court painter Frants Henningsen at the age of 13, later studied in his studio. When Torvald was 19 and a great hulking youth famed as a school gymnast, his teacher suggested that he ought to travel, to see the great art galleries of Europe. Hoyer promptly picked up another muscular schoolmate named Max and formed a tumbling team. Vaudeville engagements came quickly. Soon they teamed up with four other tumblers, became the Montrose Six, moved on to acrobatic triumphs...
...grasps the wheel with his whole strength. His arms stiffen, and he is as likely to steer off the road as along it. His legs are forcibly extended, and his feet are pressed down hard. It is the muscular act that Sherrington, who discovered it in the dog, named the 'extensor thrust.' . . . In so doing [the motorist] presses his foot hard down on the accelerator pedal. If then the first jump of the car sends it along a course where it meets other jolts and bumps in rapid succession, the driver tries in vain to recover the equilibrium...
...berserk athlete was Outfielder Leonard ("Len") Koenecke, 31, onetime railroad fireman noted among his Brooklyn Dodger teammates for his muscular torso, his pugnacity, his inability to hold hard liquor. Last week he was given his paycheck in St. Louis, where the team was playing, told to go home to his wife and child. Disconsolate at this dismissal, he started drinking on the way, was ejected from an American Airliner at Detroit. There he hired Pilot William Joseph Mulqueeny and his friend Irwin Davis, a professional parachute-jumper, to fly him to Buffalo. At 10 p. m., they took...