Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...word 'animal' includes 'insects.' I have in mind the flea [laughter]. I am not a trainer of fleas [more laughter], but I should like to know what would happen to a man who .withheld from performing fleas their natural food, which I presume is human flesh? Grave doubt exists, I think, by reason of the word 'animal' not being scientifically defined...
...idea started rather well. A playwright lost in his youth the manuscript of his favorite work, never produced. The play heroine of his mind and heart tempted him into marriage with an actress of the same general appearance. The flesh and blood lady proved a false reality. Years later, she found the lost play, produced it, killed the sacred phantom with which her husband lived. There was little left...
...infants are smoked, canned, sold as sardines. Its younger set, coming shoreward for the first time to spawn, are caught as whitebait. The largest, known as "herring king," is named shad. He is dark blue above, white beneath and carries as much as ten pounds of most delectable flesh. But?and this is the fact Mr. Hoover will emphasize?37,000,000 less pounds of shad were caught last year by fishermen than were caught 30 years ago. That is a decrease of 75%, with the result that, today, shad on the table is positively dear...
...also of sturgeon?Mr. Hoover will report that, in 30 years, the annual catch of sturgeon has decreased by 2,890,000 lb., or 88%. Toothless, long-snouted, mail-headed, he was once the monopoly of England's King. From his female's roe comes caviar. And his flesh bakes pleasantly...
...Flesh, by Arthur J. Lamb, is another of those things that go down in one's recollection as a great experience. Veteran scribes of the theatre, comparing notes, decided that, on the whole, it was the worst thing they had ever seen in a first-line Broadway playhouse. The plot dealt with a girl who substituted herself for a harlot when her lover tried to take an evening off. So thoroughly ludicrous was the enterprise that the audience hooted with amusement. This has happened, in moderation, before. Never before has one of the actors in a piece actually broken down...