Word: muscularity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Suddenly last week the silence and serenity were rent by a voice not heard in New York since it was stilled by the death of the 72nd Congress last March. Short, swart, muscular Fiorello Henry La Guardia, insurgent Republican from Manhattan's Italian district who lost his House seat to a Tammany man in the Roosevelt landslide, raised his voice loudly to demand public support for one of the most startling coalition tickets ever proposed...
...child, then to a corner where an elderly man, sitting on a crummy stool, whittled whistlewood: His salt worn cheeks, drawn closely together below two unevenly coloured eyes resembling niches in the side of a chameleon, suddenly moved backward; uneven and sinisterly pointed teeth protruded. His uncovered muscular arms turned with his body as he lowered his head. Two calloused hands held a large axe, and the man rose. The same well was heard again, coming from the child. As the axe moved across the room, the Vagabond thought of law, justice, but he could neither move or talk. "Wood...
...spending the 33,000,000 francs, M. Paul-Boncour, an authority on propaganda as France's most expensive trial lawyer, listed other points beside the hiring of muscular young lecturers able to cope with the U. S. cocktail party...
With their show about to open on the other side of Manhattan, the circus people went last week to see their pictures. Unlike Kansans, they like Curry, call his pictures "wonderful" despite a few little technical mistakes. The Codonas like the exact muscular timing of their Passing Leap. Baby Ruth likes the baby blue of her eyes against her light pink dress, the orange-red tent curtains and blue...
...John A. Kappelman, insurance broker. Far from unusual in thesis or technique, the Evanston Reveres made news by choosing for their target one of the Methodist Church's ablest preachers. Rev. Dr. Ernest Fremont Tittle, 47, social-minded leader in the Federal Council of Churches. Big and muscular, Dr. Tittle served in the Y. M. C. A. during the St. Mihiel offensive. In 1918 he went to Evanston's smart First Methodist Church, where his sermons-spoken out of the side of his mouth-now draw large congregations...