Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many " patriotic " and " humanitarian " enterprises during the war, and finally went to prison for peculations of their funds. But John Bull goes on with all the devices of American yellow journalism and a few master touches of its own. The contents of its current number includes: " The World, the Flesh and the Devil" (tabloid editorials), "Who Shields the Wicked Woman," " Houses Exchanged for Girls," " Candid Communications " (open letters from John Bull to his friends and enemies), "Human Documents" (an enlarged and unexpurgated version of Beatrice Fairfax...
...Bible is not without error. It is the Word of God only in so far as it accords with the Word made flesh in Christ...
...cating concentrated food pills for nourishment. "Hole-proof Hosiery", now named with optimistic exaggeration, will some day be made so as to defy even the attacks of army boots. Safety razors will be designed which will have regard for the quality of mercy, and will leave the pound of flesh uncut. Some new kind of heel will be developed that will make walking a real pleasure...
...worked in a turpentine camp in Bradford County, Florida. White testified that because he was unable to do as much work as the Negro convicts he was given five lashes with an eight pound strap, each lash knocking him on the ground and cutting deep gashes in his flesh. Hearings will be continued until the jury has amassed sufficient evidence upon which to base indictments...
...like the young lawyer or traveling salesman, need not continue with his work if he finds it not to his liking. And if he does decide that the teaching of Syrians or of the "heathen Chinee" is as the reading of books--nothing but "a weariness of the flesh", he can return home with at least one interesting experience behind him--more than can be said of the unsuccessful bond salesman or even of the unsuccessful minister. In any case he will learn that the cassowary bird, unimportant in the constitution of the world; while the foreign country is something...