Word: fleshed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...reason difficult to ascertain, in those days, as indeed often today, the criminal was regarded as an evil does by his own volition Remedy punish the culpit until his tortured flesh makes his mind swear nevermore Humanitarian impulses gradually lessened the severity of this punishment, but the conception of the criminal as one who is mentally diseased or one who was made such by the cruel forces of social environment has but slowly gained acceptance...
...England differs totally from the U. S. squabbles over elementary science. English clergymen are amazed when they hear that some Americans object, for example, to the evolutionary theory. They are incredulous when told that U. S. divines predict bodily resurrection despite chemical demonstration of the decay and dissolution of flesh. Englishmen overrode these difficulties 40 years ago. Now their troubles are chiefly two. First, economic: Can one Christian child of God eat caviar when another eats nothing? Second, organic: Is there one true Church? If so, where is it? Who is it? What...
With the magnificent gesture peculiar to him, Gabriele d'Annunzio, now Prince of Snowy Mountain, wrote to the newspaper Provincia di Brescia affecting proud disdain of the world, the flesh and the devil outside of his villa: "I beg you to declare that I have become the solitary, proud artist of 1911. It is my firm decision not to care or to know what happens outside my villa. Every evening, I burn before an altar of stone the heap of the day's unopened and unanswered letters. To write to me is useless, to come to my door...
...Significance. In this novel, Mr. Hergesheimer does not borrow from a century but presents it. He has achieved a book that has the tex ture of velvet and the rigor of bright iron. His method of dating the narrative with politics and giving history's skeleton,' flesh and wit in the lives of his characters is, though a difficult artifice, perfectly persuasive. To say that we have advanced in our system of government since Revolutionary times is to say that Jefferson was right and Richard Bale was wrong. It is an opinion generally accepted. Mr. Hergeheimer, indeed, holds...
Dundee gave as his reason for abdicating, the fact that there are no challenging featherweights on hand considerable enough to make it worth while wearing himself down to 126 pounds thereby risking his good health. He has fought for 14 years as a featherweight, but advancing age has brought flesh upon him. He won the title from Eugene Criqui in July, 1923, a month after Criqui had thrashed Johnny Kilbane, onetime champion. By no means "through," Dundee's present ambition is to fight Benny Leonard for the world's light-weight title...