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Horrible Armlock. Hank was perhaps the first victim of Soapy's grim determination. "Soapy was a muscle man when we were kids," he says. "That was the time of Lionel Strongfort, and Charles Atlas was just starting to advertise in a big way. Soapy used to get all of those muscle books and send for all of Atlas' muscle courses and all the gadgets. He used to use me to practice his wrestling holds. I was sort of double-jointed and gave poor Soapy a bad time, I'm afraid. He would prop the book...
Groza is a wealthy egomaniac who considers himself the greatest tennis player since Tilden, the greatest lover since Casanova and the finest figure of a man since Lionel Strongfort. At 64 he runs three miles before breakfast every day. He likes to have his bodyguard, who always carries a Luger, referee his tennis matches. Groza cheats, and his opponents rarely argue. Nevertheless, Groza is putty in Ana's hands. He goes to Mme. Pauker before leaving official functions and asks: "Do you still need...
...below) seemed to have settled the dust on the labor front. Chrysler ended its strike with a raise. Other companies seemed almost certain to follow suit. And the stockmarket, after years of acting half ashamed of itself, had suddenly become as confident as a vegetarian with a Lionel Strongfort exercise book...
Uncle Gyko "was getting all his dope free from the theosophy-philosophy-astrology-and-miscellaneous shelf at the Public Library." He profoundly mistrusted Aram's mentor, Lionel Strongfort. But Strongfort and Yoga together only got Aram a bad last place in the 50-yard dash. So Gyko became again "one of the boys around town, drinking, staying up all hours, and following the women...
Right here in Harvard Square there is a man who compares favorably with Lionel Strongfort, Earle Liederman, Charles Atlas and all the others who advertise regularly in Bernarr McFadden's lurid periodicals. But the fact that this gentleman confines himself almost entirely to Harvard students and portly professors, lends an air of respectability to his course in physical development...