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He tried to ignore it. "Did I ever tell you I used to talk for a strong-man act?" Ed said. "Not a sideshow talker, nothing like that; this guy had an act of his own, full tent and flies. Gondo, his name was, and I can still see those flies: Eighth Wonder of the World up on top, red on blue, and just Gondo underneath, pure white with red outlining. Class, but flashy, if you see what I mean.
Once I broke every strong-man record on Earth still stand, too. But not now. Senile!" "You didn't have to come," Izzy said. "When my own granddaughter comes crying for help? When she finally admits she needs her old grandfather?" Gordon was staring back at the straggling of trucks he could see beginning to break away. The raid was over, and the Legals had lost. Trench had tricked him.
They are intended to promote suppleness, and especially to strengthen those muscles which are seldom brought into play in ordinary daily life. A conscientious fifteen minutes a day with the "Daily Dozen" will soon do more for a man than any amount of skilled physical feats or "strong-man stunts."
I'd much rather know them through their books than through those awful Sunday evening soirees where poor old leonine M used to perspire reading those Socialist poems of his to the adoring ladies, and Sanguinary John used to wear the same flannel shirt that shielded him from the Polar blasts up in Alaska open at the throat, and all that sort of thing, just like a movie-actor cowboy, only John had grown a little stout and he kept spoiling the Strong-Man picture by so everlastingly posing at one end of the grand-piano!
On the edge of the quay are flower girls in black, selling big bunches of violets, and a Strong-man in pink tights and sky-blue knickerbockers a festive piece of colour taken with his two white chairs and bright carpet.
He'd done a strong-man turn with a medicine top for awhile, then he'd worked into the concession game on the county fair circuit, managed a Ferris wheel and carrousel outfit, and even swung an Uncle Tom troupe, with six real bloodhounds, through the town halls of fourteen States. "Pullin' down the kale by the double handsful, mind you," says Hunk. "But no more!
Nobbs did not know at that time, though he learned it afterwards, that safety from the drink-sin as from all other sin lies not in strong-man resolutions, or Temperance pledges, though both are useful aids, but in Jesus, the Saviour from sin.
It has become the fashion in history to decry the strong-man theory, to turn for understanding to evolution, to explain the strong man as the inevitable accident of the moment.
The poor critic goes to his grave, picking up a smattering of cant phrases that are in the air "Zolaism," "Ibsenites," "Decadents," "Symbolism," "the new humour," "the strong-man poetry," and what not but to become acquainted at first hand with the meaning or meaninglessness of these phrases is denied him by the hard conditions of his life.
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