Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Takings. Mr. Coolidge took away ten pounds more of flesh than he had on going to the White House. He also took: an engraved golden gridiron from the Gridiron (press) Club; the official picture of his Cabinet autographed by each member; a microphone on a stand built to his measure by the National Broadcasting Co. (Mr. Coolidge, surprised by this last minute gift, said he could use the stand to take his breakfast on); and his final monthly pay check from the U. S. Government ($6,250); contracts to write articles for the Cosmopolitan and American magazines, and the Ladies...
...attaché he had been seen on the spot. The Under Secretary who received the Frenchman laughed heartily and replied that Lawrence was a private in the Tank Corps stationed in Sussex. The attaché was unconvinced until the Foreign Office sent for Lawrence and displayed him in the flesh. After the Frenchman had departed, Lawrence flew off the handle and protested bitterly at the inconvenience to which he had been put. He said he was sick of being accused of fomenting every revolt that came along. The Under Secretary was sympathetic, but suggested that Lawrence return immediately to Sussex...
...Praise Famous Men R. Vaughn Williams How Sweet, How Fresh Paxton Three Italian Folk Songs Adoramus Te Palestina Jubilate Deo Gabrichi Plorate Filli Carissini The Gondoliers Sullivan Intermission The Galway Piper Irish Folk Song City of Chow Bantock To All You Ladies Callcott Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence Old French Melody
Defense. Sir Joseph volleyed in return. He defined an expert as "a man who knows pictures and can tell a copy from an original." Of the Lardoux painting he said: "The neck is a clumsy cylinder of flesh . . . there are unnatural plates of flesh . . . faulty construction, faulty anatomy." He pointed to "poor" shadows, an off-perspective eye, awkward drawing. He defined technique as the "handwriting" of an artist whereby a "friend" can always recognize his work. Leonardo, he felt, could never have been a botchy anatomist, nor did the picture reveal his technique...
...water darkened from shore-sea green to mid-sea blue. Through it trailed 30 yards of Hoover line, baited with a strip of bonito flesh. Near it on another line flipped and danced an oreno teaser, a wood and aluminum decoy.* Silent minutes made a silent hour...