Word: strongman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...March 30 when he began his beer diet test. He had just let the 7,000-lb. beer truck loaded down with the entire Hollywood baseball team ride over his chest to indicate his sustained vitality. Dr. Sebastian reported Gough physically fit in every respect, whereupon the Legionnaire strongman was whisked to the Los Angeles Times' Cooking School to address more than 1,000 women for a period of nearly two hours...
Finish. In Los Angeles, one Galen Gough, vaudeville strongman, threw two 200-lb. beer kegs in the air and caught them with one hand, permitted three men to stand on a steel-studded platform placed across his chest, held an anvil in his teeth while an accomplice hit it with a hammer, lay down on a Persian carpet while an eight-ton beer truck drove across his chest. He had just finished a 30-day marathon designed to show that beer is strengthening but weight-reducing. In the course of the marathon, Strongman Gough subsisted solely on beer, of which...
...Angeles, Galen Gough, vaudeville strongman, celebrated his third week of nourishing himself exclusively on beer by drinking his 285th bottle, showing reporters he had lost 25 of his 260 pounds, could still twist an iron...
...Neudorf is not a specialist in putting two inches on your biceps in a week. "No, I don't teach any of this strongman stuff. By practicing gymnastics as I teach them, a man can gain muscular coordination as well as a powerful build. No Tarzan tactics in my classes...
...last week declared winner by 45 votes. Candidate Church announced he would run independently in November on the issue of whether Nominee Simpson should "be sent to Congress to stifle the investigation of the two-billion-dollar Insull wreckage," Candidate Simpson's father having meantime been called in as strongman to run the Insull operating companies...