Word: flesh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...killed Musick's 19-year-old son, asleep in bed. He remembers how Elmon Middleton, a Harlan County prosecuting attorney who vowed he was going to crusade for miners' rights, stepped on his automobile starter one day and went up in a horrendous splash of steel, flesh and dynamite. He remembers how he himself had been besieged in a Harlan hotel by deputy sheriffs who were determined to run him out of town...
Opera, kept woman of the arts, got out and hustled last week. In a Manhattan theater, the endless tunes of Mozart's Cosi fan tutte ("Thus do all women"-or more freely translated, The Way of All Flesh) prattled along at prices of $1.10 to $3.30. Its young, energetic performers were a new opera company, named the New Opera Company. Their impresario was a handsome socialite, Helen Huntington Astor Hull, ex-wife of Vincent Astor, now wife of Real-Estate Broker Lytle Hull-one of those great & good women who support the Metropolitan Opera in the style to which...
...Laurel Springs, N.C. Then he mentioned the Social Security message he was preparing for Congress, topped it off with some breezy chitchat about world affairs. Mountaineer Doughton went away mollified but not wholly convinced. He thought the President would probably see part of his New Deal dream made flesh, but not his whole heart's desire...
Visitors to Chicago's semicentennial last week saw its second prodigy in the flesh. As tall and handsome as Harper was dumpy and homely, dimple-chinned Robert Maynard Hutchins was secretary of Yale at 24, dean of its law school at 29, president of Chicago at 30. Like Mr. Harper, Mr. Hutchins (even Ph.D.s are called Mr. at Chicago) is a prodigious money-raiser ($65,000,000 in twelve years) and innovator. Inheriting a university that stood second only to Harvard in scholarship, Hutchins has made Chicago preeminent in another quality-intellectual zizz...
...French marched to battle in retreat-like confusion. "A horse collapsed and could not rise again; a tank passed over him. The heavy caterpillar treads cut into his living flesh. Stray cows . . . bellowing with pain .. . ran amidst the tanks, trucks, and cannon. Everybody was looking for everybody else. . . . And no one knew where he was going...