Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Demp-sey- traveled from city to city in the U. S. Every night but Sunday she performed a strange rite. Entering a small cubicle engaged for her in advance, she closed the door, molded a blob of wax, placed it on the bridge of her flattish nose. She fastened flesh-tinted court-plaster to her slanting eyes, creamed and powdered her broad cheeks, all so deftly that an Indo-European girl, or at most a Eurasian, left the dressing-room where a little Nipponese had gone in. Not until she reached Detroit last week was real attention paid this young...
There were other Commencement vanities savoring less of the flesh and the devil. On the great day the ladies of the Colony turned out in full regalla, calculated to shame the lilies of the field. There is a famous story of an elderly dame who sat up all night before the 1758 Commencement to save her hair, done up the previous evening by the coiffeuse, who had no other tine for that particular lady. Another writer on Commencement--one bitter toward the fop-pishdress--declares that a roomy family coach could carry but two ladies, one sitting forward...
Hour after hour the hard clay road bastinadoed their blistering feet. Dutch maids and matrons skimmed by on bicycles-made marching seem the harder. As the blazing unclouded sun poured down, scowls gathered and perspiration trickled slimily upon hot flesh. Only one vision of relief loomed. BEER! At Assen there would be beer...
TAMPICO-Joseph Hergesheimer -Knopf ($2.50). To a forest of oil wells, peopled by Mexican bandits, derelict Yankees, greasy drillers, dollar-brained exploiters and always, always, their perfumes clinging, their bodies twining and hinting as only a close observer of exotic flesh could make them twine and hint, women of extreme temperature waiting in cafes, hotel lobbies and upper chambers, Govett Bradier, oil baron extraordinary, returns to complete the theft of an associate's wife, Vida Carew. He is convalescent from malaria but chronically passion-ridden. What time he hangs around Tampico, small bright knives slip out of sheer hosiery...
...Significance. Mohammed's presumable life has now been extricated, in flesh and blood, with diverting irony, from the pros and cons of scholiasts. Allah figures in the tale as Mohammed's yes-man. For a more serious and comprehensive study of Allah, Arabia and Islam (though not of Mohammed), read Doughty's tremendous Travels in Arabia Deserta-Boni & Liveright...