Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...surgeon found that under the boy's skin were folded two tiny arm stumps. There were faint traces of some armless muscles. With boldness and calculation tha surgeon went to work; cut loose the stumps, brought them free; stretched muscles; grafted flesh and skin; produced two arm stumps as large around as the arm of a two-year-old baby. These grew strong, grew larger. Henry became able to wiggle them at will. Artificial arms were carefully fitted over them. He could do things for himself. Best of all he could have regular shirts "with sleeves." His joy when...
...ponies are now in excellent shape, in spite of the hard usage that they encountered in the Lancer's match. Since then they have been exercised daily and have succeeded in discarding all superfluous flesh...
...assembled last week, Canadians placed many a bet on robust, hearty Premier King and on his traditional rival, sleek, meticulous, former Premier Meighen. The odds stood at about 3 to 1 that the urban aristocrat, Meighen, cannot politically, unhorse Countryman King, who has "broken in" many a horse of flesh and blood...
...Martin grown up?); there is Joyce, the little girl whom Martin liked? and besides there is Martin, in body a man but really little Martin never-grown-up. Then begins the game of "Spies." Martin, the child, sees them, their petty annoyances, troubles of the spirit and of the flesh brought on by the loss of childhood's simplicity, and his meeting them with that simplicity puts them all in strange confusion. Little Martin in a man's body learns and learns. But just before he learns the final tragedy of growing up, the game is over; mercifully the clock...
...James A. Greenwood. The seasoned Rusk was victorious at the polls. But later he presented a resolution to the county commissioners declaring that Greenwood had illegally retained a typewriter and law books belonging to the public office. Infuriated, Greenwood, overcome at the polls but not overcome in the flesh, engaged with Rusk. Before one of Greenwood's lusty blows, the skull of Rusk fractured. Physicians shook their heads...