Word: muscularity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...current pastime for reckless Manhattan drunks is urging the waiter to ask the proprietor to throw them out, Jack Dempsey last week crossed Eighth Avenue, entered Madison Square Garden, clambered into the ring and nodded morosely to the crowd. Into the ring immediately behind him climbed the two muscular lightweights whose fight the crowd had paid to see: scarred Sammy Fuller of Boston, perennial stumbling block for lightweight contenders, and chipper young Lou Ambers who had nothing but a purse to gain by winning, stood to lose a chance at Barney Ross's title in a bout this summer...
...River Aisne. All this gives The Iron Mother, which might have been just another story of a dominating female, a salty, Gallic flavor, which will take U. S. readers into the atmosphere of a culture that is far, far away in spirit. The translation, by Vyvyan Holland, is supple, muscular-French prose rendered in good English prose...
...heart is a hollow muscular basket which begins to beat about ten days after conception and stops only with death. The cavity consists of four chambers. Two of them, called auricles, receive blood from the veins. Two, called ventricles, push blood into the arteries...
...Tall, muscular, 20-year-old Son Franklin entered Harvard in 1933 with one unpunished arrest for speeding already chalked against him. He got off with a dressing down from a traffic officer at Windsor Locks, Conn, that autumn, an other at Union, Conn, the following spring. On an icy street in suburban Boston last March his automobile knocked down 60-year-old Mrs. Daniel P. O'Leary. Authorities excused him for the accident, fined him $20 for using out-of-state license plates beyond the 30-day limit. But Mrs. O'Leary, having suffered many...
...Brasov, where that Jewish Juno, large, muscular, red-haired Mme Magda Lupescu, often dallies with King Carol II, guards caught a fully-armed spy roaming the Royal Palace last week. Spy Ludwig Andrei had in his breast pockets plans of the palace, its secret entrances and those sliding panels which have enabled Rumanian Royalty to pass with such discretion from one bedchamber to another. Next day police, gendarmes and detectives raided scores of hotels, restaurants and clubs, stopped railway trains to search passengers to the skin. By nightfall Spy Andrei had been joined in jail by over 5,000 suspects...