Word: samsons
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...Manas Saltarelle Saint-Sains Harvard Glee Club Grand Aria Adi Bravusa Onorba leggiera Meyerbier Folk Songs O! du Liebe Angeli, Swiss Concon, Canari Jalloux, Neuchatel LAuterbach, German Nightingale, Russian Miss Hempel Mother Moscow Tschesnokor La Garde Passe, from "Les Deux Avares" Gretry Let Their Celestial Concerts All Unite, from "Samson" Handel Harvard Glee Club
...Soloist: C. R. Gordon II/) Drake's Drum Coleridge-Taylor Love Songs: Brahms Not so Close to Me A Tremor's in the Branches Nightingale, Thy Sweetest Song From You Hills the Torrent Speeds Secret Nook in Shady Spot Then Round about the Starry Throne, from "Samson" Handed...
...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...
...hoisted it high over head with one hand, lay down on the stage with it, cuddled and caressed it and rose again while the Aquarium rocked with cheers. He fastened chains around his arms, lifted that beloved titanic dumb-bell and burst every chain before putting it down. Samson refused to proceed any further...