Word: he-man
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...grey-walled University Club in downtown Los Angeles. There David Faries had gathered a hundred business & professional men to join him in bacon & eggs and to hear him talk turkey off-the-record. For 45 minutes, to the obvious satisfaction of virtually everyone present, he talked, answering in gutty, he-man language (hells & damns were not infrequent) the questions inspired by the doubts that California Republicans had expressed about Willkie since...
...vigor is almost overwhelming. He was catcher on his varsity baseball team, is a good fisherman, hunts with the sportsman's single-barreled shotgun, golfs with the natural American combination of a he-man's long drive and a duffer's inability to break...
Commenting on both speech and reactions, Scripps-Howard Columnist William Philip Simms said: "It was a pity that it had to be left to a pretty woman to make the most-needed he-man speech on foreign policy that has been heard from either floor of the House since the war began. . . . Representative Luce is so famed for pulchritude, chic, wit and wisecracking that these got the headlines instead of the sound doctrines expounded and the grave warnings sounded. 'Glamorous' was the word her listeners thought of: not 'How damn true.' " Assistant Secretary of State Adolf...
...laughing as well as the fighting stock of the nation. The acting isn't bad--John Payne, Maureen O'Hara and Randolph Scott have no trouble giving adequate performances. But any resemblance between the story here and a good plot, or between this film and an honest-to-goodness he-man thriller is very well camouflaged. Instead of the Marines making a man out of the Culver kid, John Payne, he turns around and makes mincemeat out of them, and it takes Pearl Harbor at the end of the picture to interest him in the glories of the life...
...TIME, too, hopefully hails He-Man, Brain-Man Searls, who is melancholy, laconic, regular-and who himself was authority for TIME'S statement that he knew nothing about ammunition...