Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hence it is hard to tell whether there is any real flesh left on the old bones of this melodrama. Its psychology seems real and substantial as it carries Leah, daughter of the Viennese master thief, through her efforts to rob a French statesman and philanthropist, to her regeneration, achieved with due self-consciousness. In the final act, when Leah leaves her father and his pals, Miss Gahagan, with Jose Ruben, does some of the best acting of the play, and flames out in a final skyrocket burst that makes a good one-act thriller...
Foot. The foot of one Eric Hamilton was crushed in an elevator. A tuberculous condition of both bone and flesh of the heel developed. Dr. William F. Reinhoff, resident surgeon of Johns Hopkins Hospital, began by cutting off the tuberculous part of the heel. He then cut a deep wound in the calf of Hamilton's uninjured leg, put the remainder of the stricken heel into the wound, and proposed to leave Hamilton for a month in that position. Dr. Reinhoff said the flesh of heel and leg will grow together; a new heel will be built from...
...same token, Irene despised the flesh. Her father's memory was an abomination-not less so since her sister was every inch his daughter. She made her prayers with the passion wherewith they loved...
...ebullient chapter on the British lecturer in America, Mr. Hamilton tries to trace the origin of the myth that authors are also necessarily speakers-"but for the good natured curiosity of American audiences to see British authors in the flesh, I doubt whether a single one of us would have ventured ever to get on his hind legs and stumble through a speech...
TARNISH?A keen study of the world, the flesh and the gold digger...