Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years these words from the testament of Mrs. Ellen Phillips Samuel have been so many thorns in the flesh of the Fairmount Park Art Association of Philadelphia. Plump, exacting Mrs. Samuel died in 1913, leaving the association $765,000 to execute her row of dreamed-of statues along the Schuylkill's east bank. Mrs. Samuel's dream, however, gave the association the willies. They thought it smacked of waxworks...
...Watson F. Blair Prize of $600 was awarded to a nude, Nude, by Grigory Gluckmann, a Russian artist now living in Paris. Covered with a rosy brown wash modeled into a seated nude figure, the paper was scratched with a razor to bring out highlights and sheen of flesh. The second Blair award of $400 went to Millard Sheets, a handsome, 30-year-old Californian, for Mystic Night (see cut), which seemed "modernist" to Miss Jewett but just kind of nice to other critics...
...morphine which Dr. Wassermann injected into helpless Marion Garey was less to deaden pain, which the man no longer felt, than to prevent him from collapsing from shock. After giving the morphine, the doctor applied a tourniquet, cut through the flesh of the broken leg, applying hemostats to the blood vessels he severed. He had no need to saw the bones; they were broken through. Twelve minutes after the morphine injection...
Cling to your flesh and bone, 0 heart, and bear your bitter leaf...
...making this spot one of the intellectual centres of the world. Here books are not kept in prison but are open to the use of all without undue restrictions. We often echo the lament of Ecclesiastes, but it is only over-much study that is a weariness of the flesh. It is as true today as when Cicero said it that books adorn us in prosperity, comfort us in adversity, delight us at home and do not hinder us abroad. Time discards the spawn of the press on the gossip of the hour, and the treasures remain. The field...