Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...filled with memories of splendid, dead Olympians. One more has been added to them, one whose slight, bent figure need dispute the gravel walk with none of them, yet one whose personal charm and living quality will become with each succeeding year less a tangible memory of living flesh and blood. It is safe to say that time will add to the lustre and the glory of his fame. It is equally sure that as a personal character, Dr. Eliot will from this day on become less real. It is largely a question of shadows...
...later, so that Congress can clean up its necessary routine before Christmas recess and then plunge into controversial measures. Representative Madden was emphatic in denying any slashing of Army and Navy budgets. Said he: "I have seen a lot in the papers that we would try to squeeze the flesh away from the bone. There is no intention of doing that. . . . We have spent more than any country in the world on aviation. If we haven't got the best aviation in the world we haven't got the best management." The House Ways and Means Committee assembled...
...pride, their narrow hands, their pale and pointed faces, their ruffs and their sombre eyes in which still smoldered the last fires of the Inquisition. He liked them because, having banished the spirit, they were very near to life, but he liked better those saints who, having banished the flesh, had embraced life itself. Now, the saints he loved throng the Prado at Madrid and other museums. St. Sebastian, who wears in his great beard the majesty of childhood; St. Jerome, with his riven ribs; grave St. Judas Tadeo, staff in hand; bushy St. Simon with a book; St. Maurice...
...Ever since the foundation of the Republic, 15 years ago last October 10th, the problem of unification has been a thorn in the flesh of patriotic Chinese. China has been divided laterally by the Progressive and Conservative factions, sectionally by rival generals, each with his sphere of influence, his private ambitions, and his protestations of 'loyalty to the Constitution'. Each militarist has made the national chaos an excuse for 'punitive expeditions' against his opponents, while foreign powers have seen in China's disorder a sound reason for declining to treat her as an equal in the family of nations...
However diverse the opening night criticisms of the Boston papers were in some matters, they all agreed that flesh predominated. And this is true of the first few scenes. But shortly after the rip snorting Charleston number, featuring the Hoffman's scrub team --we know it wasn't the 'Varsity, because in New York the left tackle had had her appendix removed--there was a subtle change...