Word: muscularity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...olfactory nerve cells. Up these nerves, which are relatively isolated from the blood and lymph, the attacking virus passes direct to the brain's olfactory lobe, thence proceeds to invade more distant parts of the brain and spinal cord. The invaders, injuring motor nerve cells, produce muscular paralysis. The damage done, some of the virus returns the way it came, goes out from the nose to lie in wait for other victims. Though his report dealt only with monkeys and infantile paralysis. Dr. Flexner feels sure that other infectious and inflammatory diseases of the brain and spinal cord attack...
...William Barnes, Lord Bishop of Birmingham. Before he became Bishop Dr. David was for twelve years headmaster of Rugby School. Bishop David has not only startled Anglicans by leading his congregation in vigorous hymn-singing and joining with other prelates in urging that Christ be depicted as "strong and muscular" (TIME, March 6), but he has also scandalized them by habitually inviting Non-Conformists to preach from his pulpit. When lately Bishop David announced he was bringing in, of all people, a Unitarian, it was too much for the Anglo-Catholics, who resolved to stir up a trial...
...towering erection of canvas and wallboard 100 feet high representing the arch. Over the opening was a painted rainbow which will be of colored mosaic in the finished work. Bracing either pier was an intricate iceberg of plaster. Together they contained 53 nine-foot figures-rows of muscular nude young men rising to a barrel-chested Superman with arms outstretched; nursing mothers, old men, children and refugees. Many were individual figures of great effectiveness. Two months ago Sculptor Barnard, with plaster in his hair, tried to explain all this to a puzzled interviewer...
...hospital recovering from an amputation of both legs. Mr. Ringling, who was actually at Coney Island's Half Moon Hotel recovering from an infected blister on his instep, was exceedingly angry. The huge moon-faced circus tycoon summoned the Press. Sitting in an armchair, he waved two thick, muscular legs at the reporters and shouted: "It's terrible to send out a story of that kind. I have many friends all over the country and they will be shocked when they read that one of my legs, or both, have been amputated." What the Press did not learn...
...logical supplement to the music. His choreography was banal, his company incompetent. Only in L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune did he achieve the unusual. Then, in flesh-colored tights and a leafy wreath, he went through a series of postures which were a model of muscular grace...