Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Atlantic City, stylists whispered last week of veiled ankles. How veiled? By a net hem attached to skirts, slender flesh-stalks showing through...
...beautiful chapel which is shortly to be raised is opposed by certain crass souls so sunk in materialism that they prefer the flesh pots to the beauty of tranquil worship in cool marble halls. And think of the poor boys sleeping their last sleep in France--what could be more suitable than this aspiring, finger pointing toward Heaven in perpetual memory of their noble exploits? And what is wrong with the present gymnasium besides the fact that it is old and-considerably infested with the smallest of God's creatures. After all, should God be sacrificed because...
Even as Southern gentlemen have been time and again aroused to the hanging, burning and mutilation of human flesh in expiation for the black ravishment of their white women, so can the peaceful farmers of the West be aroused to violence in expiation for violation of their property rights...
These mishaps have been occasioned by the flesh piercing items. Rahman Bey induces in himself a state of cataleptic anesthesia and jabs hatpins through his flesh and a slim dagger through the skin covering his Adam's apple. Some of these wounds bleed and some are dry, according to his will. None leave scars. These things are not miraculous, being duplicated in experiments on involuntary cataleptics...
...says simply, "in leaving out the stock poetical touches, but succeeded at last." Five versions of Leaves of Grass have been cast to wind, water and fire, after bitter hours of solitude in the lee of basaltic boulders on a sand-strewn promontory. The sixth version is stark flesh and marrow with life's tide flooding, pounding through...