Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Crooner Abdul-Wahab will take no less than $400 for singing in the flesh-a fee the Italians never saw their way to giving him. On the British program, besides a coterie of other Arabic talent, broadminded Crooner Abdul-Wahab in person cleared his voice, began his popular warbling, sang in Arabic an "ode to Shakespeare." His fee for helping British imperialism along: $625 an appearance...
...pronoonced Skrimjer as it was when th' Heilanders defeated th' Sassan-ach at Bannockburn. aye an' at Prestonpans ferbye (an' if ye dare mention Flodden Field or Culloden, I'll slit yer throats wi' ma rusty Claymore an' feed yer misbegotten flesh tae th' Eagles...
...mortified his flesh with scourges and a hair shirt, ate mostly boiled potatoes, in general mistreated his body so that his doctor said "science could not explain how he remained alive." For 35 years, according to his account and those of his associates, he was visited, tormented and in fact "infested" by the Devil. The Cure read people's minds in the confessional, performed small miracles such as causing grain to multiply during famine, large ones such as curing illness. His medical miracles M. Vianney modestly attributed to another saint, with whom he said he held periodic converse...
...declared that Housemasters "since they have already deprived the outhousers of so much else "had the best right to their flesh...
...conclusion, Dean Matthews did examine what he called the paradox of the World made flesh,--of God dwelling among men. "How God could become man has always been a baffling mystery," he said. "But the paradox is not so very unreasonable. The way God reveals himself is through human personalities; the Word has over come through inspired persons. So it was that the Word in its complete sense came in a human, personal, life, through a man in complete harmony with God. We must accept the incarnation of the second person of the Trinity; when we do it crystallizes...