Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...physicians it should be remembered that they spend their time among the sick, the wayward, the abnormal of this world. In philosophy their knowledge of our flesh-faults is a heavy balance wheel to the tangents of our loose idealism. As critics of society, they tend to hush the hallelujah chorus, introducing sardonic groans for those imperfections of mankind at which the Chautauqua-shouters, sniffing the electric air of a millennium, flap their coattails. The true earnest of a physician's worth outside his consulting room* is therefore the degree to which he refrains from hollow croaking; the degree...
...becoming impossible; he reads that the Official Spokesman (Mr. Coolidge), young enough to be his son, thinks the international outlook is gloomy. Perhaps Mr. Root is sitting at a desk in his Manhattan home writing his last great speech in a language that will prickle the flesh of a clammy World Court issue-perhaps he is preparing his autobiography; the story of a man who might have been President; a man with codes on his lips, with courts beneath his snowy crown, with creeds lurking in his steely eyes...
...rational, hygienic Mosaic dietary laws are catalogued in Deuteronomy 14, which specifies that the flesh of only cloven-footed beats that chew their cud may be eaten-cattle, deer, etc. Cloven-footed hares and swine do not chew their cuds and are interdicted...
...Shanghai Gesture-Florence Reed back at the corner of Hung Chow and Elm streets. Flesh-creeping hokum of the better sort...
Even at the end of the story, the reader scarcely understands why Juliet could not fit herself to the spiritual confinements of either her gentle or her plebeian heritage. She may have fallen between two stools, or made her choice, conscious that she was neither fish nor flesh. And this of course is the most real thing in the book. The balance of influence and choice is so nice that it is impossible to determine whether Juliet's problem was solved by decision or necessity...