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Phrasemaker. Big, 64-year-old Max Gardner had a sneaking regret that he would not be required to wear breeches and silk stockings at the Court of St. James's. He has well-shaped, muscular legs; in college he was a football star. Not that he cottons much to this king stuff. But he likes a good time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: To the Crossroads | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

...shapeless wool Mother Hubbard called a djibbah,* talked in a full-voiced, fruity accent. The Roedean Girl knew how to play cricket and to "play the game"; she never "let the side down," never "sneaked," always "pulled her weight." In caricature and often in fact, she was a mannish, muscular, back-slapping bluestocking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Frightfully Gamesy | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

Poverty for All. Those who come to St. F.X.'s modest brick and wooden buildings soon get to know the broad-minded Roman Catholic priest who is the director of the college's extension department: the Rev. Dr. Moses Matthias Coady. His ringing voice, ruddy features and muscular 250 pounds are familiar all over the Maritimes. He was born on a farm in a Nova Scotian village, tiny Margaree Forks, which had poverty aplenty. He studied in Antigonish, in Rome, and in Washington, taught school, preached, but never forgot his birthplace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: NOVA SCOTIA: Modern Moses | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

...WARNING AGAINST BONY, MUSCULAR...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Slim-Bodied Undergraduate Look to Atlas As Ectomorphic Revolution Gains Momentum | 11/5/1946 | See Source »

Complaining of the prevalent attitude that Sargent girls are "muscle women," she added, "We're well built, but not muscular. After all, modern physical education develops a lot more than just muscles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sargent Lays Down Dumbbell To Dance with Crimson Men | 11/1/1946 | See Source »

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