Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eschew the ways of flesh...
...good care to defang them. The fangs are long, hollow teeth connecting with venom sacs in the snake's upper jaw. When the fangs puncture animal, fish or reptile the venom (in most snakes a yellowish fluid) is squeezed, like a hypodermic injection, into the victim's flesh. Hindus defang their serpents by searing the jaws with hot irons. Others rip the fangs out with pincers or flick a cloth at the snake's head until the fangs are caught in the cloth and yanked out. Defanged snakes quickly grow new fangs...
...leave much to be desired in the way of smoothness, the two leading ladies are a pleasure to watch--particularly, we thought, Miss Brinkley in the part of Delphine. And then of course De Wolfe Hopper is in the cast. But on the whole "White Lilacs" is neither fish, flesh nor fowl nor, as the name might imply good, erotic, red herring...
Significance. Clearly the Agent General's report supplies the Allied Powers with ample data from which to argue that Germany can well afford to pay her pound of flesh. But even Shylock experts will not lose sight of three arresting facts...
...Foreign loans have made possible Germany's phenomenal economic recovery, and to assume the indefinite influx of such borrowed capital would be sheer folly. 2) Since nearly half of Germany's pound of flesh is being paid "in kind" under the Dawes Plan?that is to say in German goods which compete with Allied home production?the creditor powers will find it still to their advantage to knock off something from the German debt in return for a promise of more "cash" and less "kind." 3) The four years covered by the Report do not include the present so-called...