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...blond man of average height, with a mustache in the Kaiser Wilhelm manner, an inadequate nose, and a body that astonishingly, at the slightest excuse, erected mountain-ranges, mounds and melons of muscles-Eugene Sandow, like Mark Hanna, Lillian Russell, George Coxey, John L. Sullivan, was one of the outstanding idols of a period 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Death of Sandow | 10/26/1925 | See Source »

Some months ago, a tall, erect, blond, young man of severely military carriage and aristocratic mien, was invited to a garden party at one of the most sumptuous villas of which modern Rome can boast. There he was introduced to a slight, dark-eyed girl olive-skinned, graceful as a faun, warm with the lambent inner radiance of the Italian heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pout Royal | 9/28/1925 | See Source »

...didn't want to be a Queen," she insisted whenever a reigning monarch or the crown prince of an empire was proposed, as her future husband. Disturbed, her father cast a piercing Italian glance after his daughter as she strolled, one afternoon at Bordighera, with a tall blond young man whom King Vittorio thought he recalled having seen before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pout Royal | 9/28/1925 | See Source »

Kissing Ghost. There was Madeleine, for instance, an amorous apparition, whose medium was a rough country cartman with a thick blond mustache. Delegate Thibault, who related Madeleine's doings, said he thought she was a materialization of a 19-year-old girl who died in 1908. She was summoned, he explained, by an arrangement of red lights and phosphorescent screens, which went sailing around the room when she had begun to osculate. She was quit partial to a member of the Portuguese delegation (on the cheek), but often stayed with Delegate Thibault, for hours at a time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Beyond | 9/21/1925 | See Source »

Carl C. Magee is a rangy, blond, goodlooking westerner, in his early 50's. He is editor of the Albuquerque State Tribune. One evening last week he was seated in the lobby of a hotel in East Los Vegas, N. M., being interviewed by a woman reporter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: In New Mexico | 8/31/1925 | See Source »

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