Word: samsons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that worshiped modesty in all forms, including the nude. Ladies would prod his dorsal, deltoid and pectoral development with carefully gloved fingers and ask if he were real. Sporting gentlemen with Damn-my-eyes and By-God-Sirs would lay their wagers on him when he matched strength with Samson, Cyclops, Atlas, Ajax or Hercules (rival strongmen). He was renowned for many years as the "strongest man in the world." He was appointed private trainer to His Majesty George V. He made a large fortune by bringing people into contact with dumbbells...
Once, with the Marquis of Queensbury and Lord de Clifford as judges, before a crowd that had torn down the side doors of the Royal Aquarium to get a look at him, Sandow met Samson. Samson began by bending an iron bar over arms, calf and neck. Sandow copied him. Next Samson burst a wire cable wound around his chest. Sandow burst its fellow. Samson snapped a chain on the muscles of his arm. The chain was too small for Sandow. He called for his big dumbbell. The greatest moment of his life had come...
...tuned their notes-Tita Schipa, tenor from the Chicago Civic Opera; Marguerite d'Alvarez, Spanish contralto; Rosina Torri, from La Scala; Fernand Ansseau, Belgian. Fans, neckcloths, puffed and powdered melodies furbished once more the elegant infidelities of Manon Lescaitt; pompous swaddlings adorned the familiar French-Hebrew heroics of Samson et Dalila. The San Francisco Opera Company had begun its season...
...Pops concert program for tonight follows: 1. Overture to "La Forza del Destino" Verdi 2. Waltz from "Eugen Onegin" Tchaikovsky 3. Ave Maria Schubert-Wilhelmj Solo violin, harp, organ, and strings. 4. Fantasia, "Samson and Delilah" Saint-Saens 5. Suite, "Cephale et Procris" Gretry-Mottl Tambourin--Gigue 6. Valse, "Juanita" Hadley 7. Deep River Burleigh-Jacchia 8. Rhapsody, "Italia" Casella 9. Dance of the Hours Ponchielli 10. Puck's Minuet Howells 11. Procession of the Sardar Ippolitov-Ivanoff
...March, "Father of Victory"Ganne 2. Overture "Light Cavalry" Suppe 3. Fantasia, "Mefistofele" Boito 4. "Tech" Songs 5. Bacchanale from "Samson and Delilah" Saint Saens 6. Second Slavonic Dance Dvorak 7. Finale, Fourth Symphony Tchaikovsky 8. "Tech" Songs 9. Slection, "Rose Marie" Friml-Stothart 10. Waltz, "Dream of Love" Fahrbach 11. Pomp and Circumstance Elgar