Word: flesh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Glutz, the promising blocking-back, that coffee, cakes and liniment will be no problem at the U. The Pacific Coast Conference, under minor Czar Warren Atherton, has a stringent rule forbidding even such Alumni dalliance with high-school seniors. While the spirit of the coast authorities is willing, the flesh is relatvely weak; enforcement of this laudable stand lacks the same enthusiasm evinced by high-power alumni...
...Chicago's Surgeon John F. Pick reported that during World War II "an extraordinary number of legs were saved" by plastic surgery. At eight U.S. Army plastic surgery centers, surgeons used new grafting methods (given names like "pincushion flap," "bridge flap") to clothe blasted legs with new flesh, and reduced amputations almost to nil. Said Surgeon Pick: "We are in a great transition from the surgery of despair to the surgery of repair...
...however excellent the production and performance, the essence of great dramatic poetry is verbal, and the bottom of this play's new success was that Andre Gide had kept the greatness of great words in a new language. Samples: ¶ O that this too, too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! (Chair trap massive, Oh! Si tu pouvais fondre, T'evaporer, te resoudre en rosee...
Gilbert (1925) and Flesh and the Devil with Garbo...
...seems Harvard men just won't take no for an answers. Letters keep pouring in by the thimbleful from A students with time on their hands asking us where one goes in Boston for scintillating evenings of jazz in the flesh. A few weeks ago this column brought out its mudiest colors in an attempt to present an accurate portrait of the gloomy and tragic local hot music situation. Unfortunately our palette doesn't contain paints black enough to do real justice to the situation...