Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week British airmen zoomed over the Afric Sudan, raining down bombs upon maddened, defenseless, uncomprehending herds of cattle. Boom! Above the basso of the bombs blood spurted fortissimo. Boom! Mangled flesh and splintered bones crescendoed high. BOOM...
Late in the afternoon the two prisoners met in a corridor. It was the exercise period. The guards were a few steps away. The other prisoners stood in a huddled circle. William Reid moved suddenly. "Red" Moran felt a sharp jagged blade tearing through clothes, tearing through his flesh...
Early standees may arrive for an especially popular play on the midnight before -full 20 hours in advance. When flesh and blood can stand no longer, the queue folk rent camp stools from hucksters for a few pence each. Then, lest they topple in exhaustion from the stools, they fling several more coppers to street artists and organ grinders who essay to keep the queue awake. Finally standees and sittees dose themselves with coffee sold by vendors who cry loudly the first Hottentot syllable, "hot . . . hot . . . HOT!" Last week Edward of Wales commented sympathetically upon London theatre queues in addressing...
Persuaded by his skilled publicity, Sadie Holland went to Dr. Schireson for removal of her shoulder scar. He suggested that he could also straighten her legs for the $800. She consented. While he cut at the scar, Dr. Zaph (he says) worked thus: "The flesh [of a leg] was bared to the bone; an electric saw was used to cut wedges from the main leg bone, or tibia, and then the wound was sewed up. The limb was then placed in a cast and then left to straighten itself out as the wedge closed together." He added...
That unsavory gentleman, irate because his daughter has eloped with a youth of an opposing race, frantic because he could not extract the pound of flesh which was the price of his loans to one Bassanio, is not one for starched shirts and diamond dignity. The demeanor of flawless respectability which has so often served able Actor Arliss well now plays him false. He finds it difficult to add writhing to his words as they eject ". . . and spit upon my Jewish gaberdine." He finds it difficult to scream "My daughter, my ducat...