Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...make a woman beautiful is to pierce a hole through the flesh of her lower lip and insert a flat wooden plug. Do the same with the upper lip, and gradually insert larger and larger plugs. At last two wooden discs as large as soup plates, each edged with stretched lip, will hang down from the beautified face, almost prevent speech, and render eating extremely difficult. Complete the beautification by filing the teeth to sharp points and hanging a ring in the nose. Then, in the French Colony of Senegal, West Africa, the woman so adorned may expect to command...
Death, however, did not come to him, last week. Lucky, he received only flesh wounds. As everyone knows, he was equally lucky, some months ago, when another would-be assassin put bullets through his flesh near his home at Cajeme, Sonora...
Tattooing. Women, and men too, who have had their cheeks tattooed a permanent pink and their lips scarred into a stiff cupid's bow have become problems to the physician. The needles with which the tattooer punctures his customer's flesh are often unsterilized, the dyes that he soaks into the needle-pits polluted. Frequent results: gangrene, tetanus (lockjaw), leprosy, amputation, tuberculosis, blood poisoning.?Marvin D. Shie of Cleveland...
...Tenno (Emperor) of Japan is held sacred and sublime, a being directly descended from the Sun Goddess, and himself divine. Who would dare to jab a hypodermic into the flesh of such a being...
...York) has a red-eyed elephant and a crouching panther on his desk. Last week a female bear cub joined them, prowled around among paper knives and cigar ashes. The elephant and panther are bronze. The bearlet is flesh and blood, was sent to the Zoo, named "Miss Sullivan...