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Brawniness Atlas, Charles (1893–1972) American muscleman; successful selling body-building by mail order. [Am. Culture: Misc.] brawny, strapping miner who saves others in mine collapse. [Am. Music: Jimmy Dean, “Big Bad John”] big Yorkshireman. [Br. Lit.: Nicholas Nickleby] lumberjack performs mighty deeds. [Am. Folklore: The Wonderful Adventures of Paul Bunyan] gigantic, sinewy Philistine killed by David’s slingshot. [O.T.: I Samuel 17; 21:9, 22:10; II Samuel 21:19] huge, raging, green-skinned strongman into which Dr. Banner is transformed. [Comics: Horn, 324–325] brawn his chief asset; accompanied with little brains. [Am. Lit.: McTeague] sailor who owes his incredible muscle-power to a diet of canned spinach. [Comics: Horn, 658] muscular English lord, reared by African apes, hero of novels and films. [Am. Lit.: Tarzan of the Apes (1914); Am. Cinema: Rovin, 105–106] |
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