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Sandow|ˈsændəʊ|
The name of Eugen Sandow (1867–1925), Russo-German exponent of physical culture, used as the type of a strong man; also applied attrib. and in the possessive to exercises, an exercise machine, and societies endorsed by him. Also fig.
1898Physical Culture I. 112/2 If ‘Cantab’ had proposed the theory that Sandow's system would have produced as good a ten-stone oar as Oxford training made of Mr. Kent, he would have stated a definitely arguable proposition; for if Sandow's system is to be applied to rowing at all, this is one of the results we shall immediately ask it to produce. 1905W. B. Yeats Let. July (1954) iii. 454, I have got into my routine here... To this I have added Sandow exercises twice daily. 1911L. Stone Jonah i. ix. 100 He threw down the hammer with the air of a Sandow. 1914C. Mackenzie Sinister St. II. iii. ii. 531 They talked instead of Sandow exercises and mountain-climbing. 1932A. Huxley in Lett. D.H. Lawrence p. xiii, How bitterly he [sc. Lawrence] loathed the Wilhelm-Meisterish view of love as an education, as a means to culture, a Sandow-exerciser for the soul. 1947N. Coward Peace in our Time i. iv. 51 Nora: You're thinner than you were when—when you went away. Stevie: I'm Sandow to what I was when I left the prison camp. 1947C. Gray Contingencies i. 21 A complete fallacy..that it is possible for aesthetic sensibility to be imparted..by any such methods of spiritual jerks or intellectual Sandow exercisers. 1952D. Davie Purity of Diction in Eng. Verse 175 He [sc. G. M. Hopkins] has no respect for the language, but gives it Sandow-exercises. 1962Listener 2 Aug. 166/2 The founding of hundreds of Sandow physical-culture clubs throughout England and Wales. 1965F. Sargeson Mem. Peon. v. 116 Anyone who engaged in Sandow exercises.
Hence ˈSandowism, the principles of physical culture advocated by Sandow.
a1930D. H. Lawrence Phoenix (1936) 656 Physical training and Sandowism altogether is a ridiculous and puerile business. |