Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Existing as a man of straw, the Spokesman's usefulness ceased when the flesh-and-blood man behind him became too plainly visible. In his place is predicted the revival of old, vague phrases: "It is understood at the White House today. . ." "The Administration attitude is. . ." "Someone close to the President said...
Last week champions of the oyster arose with claims of even greater atrocities. Consider the oyster, said they. First, he (or she) is ripped unkindly from the shell, stuck through the flesh with a fork, dipped in a smarting pepper cocktail, partly mangled by human teeth, squeezed down a narrow canal, smothered to death in the gastric juices of the human stomach. How can civilized sensibilities stand for this, asked the oyster's friends. Could a man swallow a slimy, wiggling baby toad and not feel any reaction in his stomach?* Edward G. Boulenger, Director of the Aquarium...
Ankles Preferred (Madge Bellamy). A progression of pretty models through a series of French negligee adventures affords an opportunity to display trim figures, latest styles, tricky subtitles. The title derives from the heroine's cynical observation that the villainous capitalist would possess her for her flesh rather than her soul which, by contrast, is what interests the hero...
...rebate him part of his payments for meat and grain transportation. Competitors suffered. Also like the elder Mr. Rockefeller, he made legitimate money by avoiding wastes and making savings in his business. Philip D. Armour I invented the scheme of utilizing every part of a slaughtered animal ?flesh, hide, hair, horns, hoofs, bones, bristles, offal, everything "except the squeal." But more than this, he belonged to the band of giants of his time?Henry H. Rogers (Standard Oil); John W. Gates, speculator from California; August Belmont, Charles T. Yerkes and Thomas Fortune Ryan who managed street railways to their...
...design is his invention, and no one but he could have carried out in this rich and lustrous color such subtleties of detail, combined with breadth and solidity of form. Examine it closely and note these subtleties- the unevenness of the skin; the differences in the texture of the flesh, how here it sags and there it is drawn taut over the bones; the folds about the eyes; the slightly swollen lids, somewhat bloodshot; the inhaling nostrils; the puffy lower lip; even separate hairs of the beard are drawn out, and the hair, loosely combed off the forehead, would wave...