Word: flesh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flesh & Blood...
...None other than the flesh-&-blood Jimmy Demaret. TIME erred. He played his first Augusta Masters Tournament last year, finished out of the money, tying for 33rd place with Bobby Jones, Walter Hagen, Light Horse Harry Cooper, with a score...
...simple credo: "The people will stand anything from a politician who refrains from annoying them." Boss Penrose, one of whose shoes was laced with a corset-string the day he met Matt Quay, despised personal graft as cheap pocket-picking, lived mostly for the pleasures of the flesh,* and for the perpetuation of high tariffs. Mr. Penrose was a member of the U. S. Senate from 1897 through 1920, but he never achieved his heart's desire: to be mayor of Philadelphia. His nomination was thwarted by a photograph which showed him leaving a celebrated brothel at daybreak...
...mountain overshadowing Pasadena, he has done a lot of unorthodox thinking about the human mind, the human soul, the World Soul, Cosmic Consciousness, Cosmos, God. Now he has published the result of his pondering in a book, The Soul of the Universe* a calm treatise calculated to make the flesh of hardheaded materialists crawl. He starts with straightforward scientific exposition, but soon plunges into intuitive extensions; then into metaphysics, mysticism, finally into unabashed theism...
Ramsay MacDonald has been flayed before, but never so mercilessly as Mr. Muggeridge flays him as "Mr. High-Mind"; Buchmanism has been ridiculed before, but seldom so savagely: "Like moral courage, moral victory, moral anything, Moral Rearmament represents an attempt to reconcile the contrary demands of flesh and spirit by including them in one comprehensive formula. Moral Cannibalism would probably make a strong appeal to cannibals, and Moral Rape to the inmates of lunatic asylums." So it goes, with reference to almost everything: fuddlement, vulgarity and ineptitude...