Word: flesh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tied to a "fiery Tartarian steed." headed precipitously away from the lone Polish prairie. Enacted in Suffern by the papier-mache horse used by the Lunts in their Taming of the Shrew, the role of the high-tempered stallion is reduced to comic relief. But riding one of his flesh-&-blood predecessors back in the 1860s, Adah Isaacs Menken, most celebrated Mazeppa of them all, was bruised on many occasions by being thrown, kicked, stepped on. As Mazeppa, the well-made Menken used to be stripped down to her step-ins before being tossed aboard the horse. Critics...
...little girl toddled out the front gate and started down the road. A swift dark shape which had been wheeling in the blue sky plummeted down. It was an enormous eagle. The little girl saw the sinister shape, flinched and screamed, but the fierce talons closed on tender flesh, the child was caught into the air, and with powerful pinions beating, the eagle headed for its eyrie. At that moment the child's father spreng out the door with his rifle. Without an instant's hesitation, risking the child's life if his aim were not true...
Rubber Noses. People whose ears are slashed off in auto accidents, or whose noses are eaten away by cancer, cannot always have new ones made of flesh-&-blood grafts. At the Mayo Clinic, Dr. Arthur H. Bulbulian, a trained sculptor, molds artificial noses and ears so rosy and translucent that only an eagle eye can spot them as fakes. Dr. Bulbulian uses "prevulcanized liquid latex," a creamy rubber compound, which can be tinted delicately before it hardens...
...Bulbulian takes pride in matching flesh tints, in decorating his noses with tiny pores and wrinkles. Both noses and ears are glued on with a liquid adhesive made of mastic gum dissolved in chloroform or benzene. Like false teeth, false noses and ears must be doffed at night...
Throwing "everything" into his effort, by Sunday night Fuhrer Hitler had spent, according to French estimate, 400,000 lives since Tuesday, but still the young German masses surged forward, still their progress was aided by fresh mechanized fleets to supplement human flesh. Then the Germans began their double envelopment of Paris with a break-through from the Amiens region and up the Seine, west of the capital. That was when the Government left...