Word: muscularly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...absurdly low prices that other manufacturers, including Henry Ford, found it prudent to retire from the field. It was to create a market for his planes that he started Century and Century Pacific airlines, made air travel popular by slashing fares to railroad levels. Slim, young-looking, with a muscular bulge in the jaw, Errett Cord presents a collegiate aspect despite never having gone to college. He rarely speaks his mind, but when he does he uses a language racy and rich with anatomical allusions, forceful expletives. Studious-looking with his glasses on, he might be taken for a young...
...returning from a career in Hollywood because, after the 1932 Olympics, she accepted a cinema contract that led to a crumb part in one picture and to marriage with Crooner Jarrett. Most of the other names and faces at Chicago last week were familiar-Anne Govednik of Chisolm, Minn., muscular and bright-eyed, who held the U. S. outdoor record for the 100-yd. breast stroke; Dorothy Poynton. a platinum blonde from Los Angeles with a wide, toothy smile and a penchant for fancy bathing suits; tiny Katharine ("Minnow") Rawls, the boyish freckle-face from Miami Beach...
Born in Beverly, Mass. of an old New England family which had prospered in the East India trade, he went to Groton, where he was a Big Man, and to Harvard where he got his degree in three years. His muscular 6-ft.-2-in. frame bent an oar in the varsity crew and he became a member of the exclusive Porcellain Club. After graduation he went to work for the conservative old Boston banking house of Kidder, Peabody...
Search for Beauty (Paramount) is a benign sexual romp, publicized as an apostrophe to beauty, male as well as female ("Venus-like Girls! Tarzan-like Men!"). It presents: 30 handsome youngsters picked in promotional beauty contests throughout the U. S. and the British Empire; neat blonde Ida Lupino and muscular Larry ("Buster") Crabbe (Tarzan the Fearless). Lupino and Crabbe are Olympic swimmers. Hired by a pair of shifty rogues (James Gleason, Robert Armstrong) to run a physical culture magazine, they are soon shocked to discover what a crooked venture it really is. Crabbe is so vigorously honest that his employers...
...know that life is life. The heroine knows it too, but she has the old hourgeois respectability on her mind, and keeps pretty stiff-backed. Young "Dynamite," the aggressor, tries all manner of persuasions, from the argument that "you haven't lived till you've lived" to the simpler muscular method. And despite his inordinate skill, it takes just two acts (out of two) for the lady to make up her mind. Your cousin from out West would call it "pretty raw," but it really is just a fine, clean portrayal of young passion, more freely translated than usual into...