Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sever is the one Harvard undergraduate who did not go to see the orchidaceous Greta Garbo in "Flesh and the Devil", because of the rumor that the film would be censored after the police department had had a chance to feast its eyes on the square-head's curves. Robert Sherwood said it was a good thing that the smooth Swede was married to John Gilbert before the scenes were shot. It was really rather a Puritan precaution, we hear, but it may serve to raise their divorcing average...
...inches high and weighed 20 pounds. The hind paws were sharply clawed, for climbing and scratching. A sharp-pointed face peered out from a fringe of mustache, like a monkey's. The nose was hard, smooth, rubbery. With its sharp white teeth, the creature tore only vegetables, no flesh. What, asked Mr. Miller of scientists, is it? Pending further particulars, scientists would...
...receive a kiss. . . . Some hours later Sergei Slovochotov gave himself up to the police. Before that he had sat through a cinema show. Before that he had gulped down two bottles of beer. Before that he had plunged his long Finnish knife into Zina Jukova's warm flesh and through her heart. Last week the High Court at Moscow ruled that the murderer was of completely sound mind, and had acted without malice. He was sentenced to nine years of solitary confinement. Meanwhile questions loomed: "Could Sergei Slovochotov have chosen between killing his fiancee and kissing her? Could Zina...
...surgeon, white-robed and with immaculate gloves and instruments, must probe and lay bare the infections of the flesh, that it may be sterilized and heal. Recently, at the height of the Browning-Peaches orgy of pornography (TIME, Feb. 7), conscience-stricken editors tried hypocritically to explain that in probing into the sex life of a babbitt-Iecher they were acting as "surgeons to the public mind." The false hypocrisy of this excuse appeared, last week...
...Chronicle, Washington's Post, St. Paul's Pioneer Press, Baltimore's Sun, Toledo's Blade -submitted to the logic of their past scandal policies and told their readers, in front-page despatches from news services and special correspondents, about the abnormalities of a fat old flesh-potter in a distant city. The sensational Cleveland News, stewing in its own juice finally became disgusted with itself and apologized to the public, in real misery...