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Five feet ten inches he stands in his naked feet. Normal, his chest stretches the tape 44 inches; expanded, 49. Waist 31, thigh 24, calf 16½, ankle 8, neck 18, biceps 16½, reach 74?complete his description, except for the ineffable, the ineluctable, the sublime beauty of his face. His name is William Wright of Dustan Corner, Me. His nameless face and figure are in the marble, the bronze, the oils of Barnard, MacMonnies, Manship, Sargent...
...assistants to complete preparations for the operation. Graduate surgeons and doctors, students and pressmen drew back out of the way, craned their heads forward to watch the technique. The surgeon grasped hold of the child's crippled leg with his powerful fingers, flexed the knee, rotated the thigh, brought it up and then down with a motion as slow and tremendous as that of a caterpillar tractor. There was a snapping of adhesions, a sickening cracking. The two legs were together, were bandaged into immobility with the hips. The surgeon straightened up. His blue eyes, which had just now been...
...graceful riding habit of a generation ago, as against the man's saddle and the riding breeches of today." The objections to the man's saddle, besides the supposedly esthetic ones, were based on the quasi-medical grounds that the muscles of a woman's thighs were less strong than the corresponding ones of a man and that therefore a woman was less secure astride a horse-would be more safe while grasping the pommels of a sidesaddle. These muscles, as everyone should know, are the pectineus (comblike) and the adductores magnus, longus and brevis (the great...
...when a woman takes to horses after adolescence and then chiefly for show, there is some truth in the opinion of the British mooter of the subject,* because her thigh muscles may not have been adequately strengthened in girlhood. But for the girl taught to ride astride from childhood there need be no such fear for her or for her health. She will have learned balance, kept her spine straight, and strengthened her abdominal and thoracic muscles as well as those of her legs. She can keep her seat in a walk, amble, trot, canter, gallop or jump, even...
...bones; a man would simply splash . . . Elephants have their legs thickened to an extent that seems disproportionate to us, but this is necessary if their unwieldly bulk is to be moved at all ... A 60-ft. man would weigh 1000 times as much as a normal man, but his thigh bone would have its area increased by only 100 times . . . Consequently such an unfortunate monster would break his legs the moment he tried to move...