Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sweaters, that has almost succeeded in banishing the sweaters, that has made the striped tie victim of occasional snobbery, if this sentiment has played midwife to the birth of a new ostracism, then Harvard has once again gone too far. When typewriters, pajamas, and cameras go red, blue and flesh, the Senior has opportunity to render his first service to waiting mankind, by calming a world gone color mad with the dignity of baccalaureate black. More that that, his immediate attention to duty might relieve Harvard of the stigma, at present deserved, of self-consciousness...
...many prizes and fellowships offering a trip to Europe as the solid flesh to accompany the more nebulous haze of distinction lent by them, the larger part are a direct result of war-time and early post-war idealism. In those days of friendship and hatred, hope and vindictiveness, the idea of greater intercourse among nations as a cure for world ills found its widest acceptance; and the generosity of people on both sides of the ocean established a considerable number of exchange studentships. Since that time, other interests than purely philanthropic ones have bestirred themselves, and while these latter...
Another kinsman of the Romanovs, Duke George of Leuchtenberg, said not long ago despairingly of Mme. Tchaikovsky: "If she is not Anastasia who has returned in the flesh it is most certainly her spirit that has come back in a different body. And the worst of it is we can't find out whose body...
...MIRROR FOR WITCHES - Esther Forbes-Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). Child of witches burned in Brittany, Bilby's Doll is haunted in Salem by the stench of their burning flesh, remembers their Black Masses, and says the Lord's Prayer backward. Thereupon the impish child is accused of withering the fruit of her foster-mother's womb, and of casting a fatal ailment upon her beloved foster-father. When God ignores her challenge that He restore this good man's life, she believes herself indeed a witch, and sets herself weirdly to learning the trade. Straws and hairs...
...powers that make the world pay to laugh allow no national tradition to die quickly, least of all one so bone of their flesh. And America's fond tolerance of collegiatism, if its cause were removed, might bring psychological chaos in its wake. Moreover, it is believed that through John Held alone do youth and age alike recollect emotion in tranquility. To prevent the catastrophic shock of sudden vanishing, as well as for auld lang syne, haven was furnished collegiatism--in the back pages of Judge...