Word: flayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Porter Sargent was widely and amiably known as a rich, eccentric Bostonian who publishes the Handbook of Private Schools, whose salty annual prefaces on world affairs amuse many. Last week Mr. Sargent jumped right out of his scholastic skin. Reverting to Revolutionary New England form, Mr. Sargent attempted to flay the hide off British propaganda. If the U. S. people get into World War II, nobody can say that Porter Sargent did not warn them...
...Science, he concluded that the reason for the gullibility of U. S. university graduates is that U. S. universities teach science atrociously. He proceeded to flay his fellow science teachers for trying to cram their dogmatic opinions down students' throats, giving them no notion of what Science has to do with the price of eggs. Most horrible example: A certain chemistry professor who admitted that he often sneaked into his laboratory after hours to rearrange his students' apparatus so that their experiments would be sure to come out right...
...House rafters rang indeed with opposition. Republican John Parnell Thomas of New Jersey, member of the Dies Un-American Activities Committee, leaped up to flay Poet MacLeish as a "fellow traveler" of the Communist Party, a cofounder of the League of American Writers ("of the 23, twelve were well-known Communists"), an active sympathizer with Loyalist Spain...
Packed with drama and feeling, Lillian Hellman's plays meet their grim situations headon. A moralist, not a misanthrope, Playwright Hellman ferrets out evil and malice not to wallow in them but to flay them alive. Witty, sociable, personally far from stern, Lillian Hellman is happiest while lazing through an amphibian summer on an island off Connecticut, with such friends as Dorothy Parker (who suggested the title for The Little Foxes), Dashiell Hammett, Arthur Kober. But today, awake to the troubled world around her, Lillian Hellman loafs seldom. Militantly antifascist, she two years ago spent a month under bombardment...
...personality pamphlet, it is a wow. As a novel, it is nothing much-no better nor worse than other Douglas books. Professor Tubby Forrester is so sour on life that it takes 432 pages for John Wesley Beaven, one of the nicest, cleanest, bravest medical students ever to flay a corpse, to convince the Professor that doctors must be gentle as well as skillful. John Wesley's own life is leavened by what Author Douglas calls his "process of orientation" to Lan Ying ("orchid"), an American girl brought up as a Chinese...