Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regarded as to some extent playing the role of a Shylock, exacting the last cent or the last pound of flesh; and it is particularly to that phase of the controversy that I wish to address my remarks today...
Athanael, the monk (Baritone Danise) pretended, too. He pretended that the beauty of Thais had moved him to win her soul for Christ whom alone he loved, and that, in the winning, he found his love for Christ was really love for Thais. He died in torment of the flesh, while she, dying also, dreamed only of the mercy of the pale Christ, her last lover. He knew all the time that she was the Baroness Von Popper and in no more danger of hell fire than the people in the boxes, who knew this also, for she let them...
...regardless of rank. Ambassadors passed the salt to Senators. Senators hobnobbed over their soup with the men who write, and who sometimes rip, them up from day to day. Bankers and ballplayers, Bandmaster Sousa, Governors Smith of New York and Cox of Massachusetts, publishers aplenty?all in the flesh, eating and laughing and talking...
...flesh?guests who had been to other Gridiron dinners looked about to make note of who was really there. There would be other dignitaries, not in the flesh, coming later. The newspaper "boys...
...Bird and Ernest Cossart in her support; went down on one of the few notable productions of the season. Shaw's ideas in the play were familiar. But Shaw knew his people must not be simply puppets of protest against a world's uncertainty. He made them flesh and blood; under the spell of a virtually flawless performance, they came poignantly to life. Ideas chip and disappear; emotion is a constant quantity...