Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...philosopher's strength and weakness, his human and his prophetic quality, as no other book has done. Mr. Perry has managed with great skill to show many sides of his many-sided subject. There appears not merely the Emerson of sculptors and builders of memorials," there is also the flesh-and-blood Emerson, flying out angrily in the face of what he hates, mourning the death of his son, or grimly reticent after minor disaster, as in his laconic entry one day: "House burned." The book is brief enough to be read even in our busy times, and read...
...proverb says--but, in the long run as Nurnri used to say, it is worth it. For physicists can learn what happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable body and doctors can leave why, when he signs up has chorus, a burlesque manager takes on flesh...
...came upon the street. The Misses Keifer emerged, saw, sprinted. They were overtaken-whips lashed across their backs-black paws ripped their clothing, tore at their hair. Meanwhile, some 20 undergraduates from the University of Pennsylvania jumped into the battle, swung fists at Negroid jaws, felt knives in their flesh. Police arrived before any deaths were recorded...
Those near him declared that the expression of the Duce's face did not change. He sat quite still while the mob closed in upon his would-be assassin. Strong hands strangled the youth. Fourteen knives plunged into his flesh. Stripped, beaten to a pulp, dead, his body, unrecognizable, was eventually recovered by the police...
...equine transportation, white wings were society's props. Archie Inch was a white wing; so was Archie's father; so was Archie's grandfather; just so all Inches, by birth, tradition, inheritance, were white wings. Alas! that the horse must go the way of all flesh, that the inhuman horseless carriage should sweep up yesterday's honored white wings, dump them in the rubbish can of outworn traditions. Mary (Winifred Lenihan), faithful to her father's revolutionary gas-buggy, loves and will always love Archie, the Quixotic, uniformed champion of the horse. Of course, when...