Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...night last week some 2,000 citizens of Mississippi watched a fire. The fuel for the fire consisted of a pile of logs, several cans of gasoline, and a Negro. Brightly burned the gasoline, with orange flame, black smoke. Soon the Negro's flesh became hot, reached what is technically termed the "point of combustion." Then the Negro also burned. Watching citizens heard groans, screams, pleadings. "Get me done with," cried the flaming Negro, "get me done with quick." The fire was out in 15 minutes...
...into its socket there is a sputtering drone, and the body leaps as if to break the strong leather straps that hold it. Sometimes a thin gray wisp of smoke pushes itself out from under the helmet that holds the head electrode, followed by the faint odor of burning flesh. The hands turn red, then white, and the cords of the neck stand out like steel bands. After what seems an age, but is. in fact, only two minutes ... the switch is pulled and the body sags back and relaxes, somewhat as a very tired man would do. ... Thus...
...study of Queen Victoria, Strachey crystallized a period of history; in his portrait of Elizabeth he creates a symbol of sovereignty, withal flesh and blood...
...dapper gentlemen, none was more inspired and self-confident than Arnold Rothstein, a sleek Jew inclining to flesh in his late forties. Hotel managers fawned on him, because he owned a hotel himself. Newspaper editors disliked to call him "gambler" when he got into the news. The New York World used to euphemize and call him an "operator," knowing well that many another citizen gambled as often though perhaps not so daringly as Rothstein. He won a few hundred "grand" on this year's World's Series-a contest which he was said to have "fixed...
...afternoon program is as follows: Let I's Now Praise Famous Men Williams Choeur Des Chameliers Franck Three Italian Folk Songs Harvard Glee Club Asturiana deFalla Jota deFalla Three Roumanian Dances Bartok-Szekely Miss Donaldson Jubilate Deo Gabrieli Jesu. Joy of Man's Desiring Bach Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence Arr. by Holst The Galway Piper Irish Folk Song Chorus from "The Gondoliers" Sullivan Harvard Glee Club...