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...President set a new hand- grasp, torso-tug* record: 65 per minute for 16 minutes, total 1,040. ¶In the daily line of 700 to 1,000 handshakers were Evangelist "Billy" Sunday and his wife. "Stay to lunch," said the President. They did. (See RELIGION...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Mr. Coolidge's Week: Apr. 27, 1925 | 4/27/1925 | See Source »

...often painted as well, postured in the more ridiculous attitudes pf contemporary life. These, to be sure, were there, but the prudent, hurrying over them as if they had been jokes in Holy Writ, discovered, in addition, many heads of classic purity, some exquisite busts of children, a big torso in the antique manner. Upon these things lay the lustre of an immemorial beauty that was, assuredly, Classicism. And because he had caught some glimpse of that chaste, magnificent and lonely shape whose massive sandal was set, long ago, upon the hills of Greece, but who has since confined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Nadelman | 3/30/1925 | See Source »

Then began the slapping, spanking bout of brawn and brain. A sinewy limb slipped under an unprotected crotch, another encircled an unguarded torso, there was a sudden jerk forward, followed by a heavy fall, and Champion Lewis found himself pinioned beneath 250 pounds of his opponent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Lewis vs. Munn | 1/19/1925 | See Source »

...Editorially, Physical Culture is devoted to fantastic and bizarre fads and the exploitation of Bernarr Macfadden. Every issue reeks with sex appeal. The Detroit Saturday Night has described Macfadden as 'the bare torso king and the description is apropos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Macfadden Attacked | 11/10/1924 | See Source »

...managing to remain vertical until the end, was converted into a pulp of bruised and bloody flesh by the slashing head and body blows of Gibbons. It was against the Frenchman's body that Gibbons directed his main attack, and as the final bell sounded, Carp's torso was seen to be a red, raw mass. Georges' face, also, was smeared with blood from a cut over his eye, and his nose and lips had been sadly battered. Carp attempted something like an offensive in the first four rounds, especially in the fourth, when his famed right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Carp vs. Gibbons | 6/9/1924 | See Source »

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