Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Late to Laugh' I have tried to express in a dynamic manner the tremendous pace demanded by the city of frail flesh and blood," Freedley explained...
...Totalitarian imperialism must be ended, he said, and the weaknesses of democracy corrected. "Democracy was right in its insistence on liberty and personal responsibility, but in practice the free peoples have abused the freedom it has given them by turning it, as St. Paul says, to uses of the flesh. . . . The leaders of democracy in Europe have for the first time come publicly to recognize the real root of Europe's persistent troubles and that federalism is the basic remedy for them...
Three thousand pounds of milk-fed turkey flesh have been collected from farms in Montana, the Dakotas, and Wisconsin, and are being rushed via special refrigerator cars to Cambridge. This season's gobblers are unusually large, ranging from 16 to 18 pounds apiece, and in the words of Westcott, are "check full of white meat...
...Monthly, has been the account, by one gently bred, out-of-the-way wife after another, of what life is like in the centre of the Dust Bowl, on the borders of Manchuria and in any environment whose loneliness, distance or oddity few Atlantic readers were likely, in the flesh, to attain. It was therefore not surprising that the book to win, over 600-odd contenders, the Atlantic's $5,000 non-fiction contest for 1939, should be an account of what-life-has-been-like for the long, lean, lemon-tongued, ladylike U. S. wife of British...
...Foreign Bondholders Protective Council, Inc., in its attempt to adjust Latin-American defaulted bonds held by U. S. investors, refused to comment on whether or not he favored scaling down the $1,000,000,000 Latin-American debts. Reason: the inter-American economic conference next month. > Tut-tutted flesh-creepers in a radio speech on the New York Herald Tribune Forum. Said he: "In and out of Congress we have heard orators and commentators and others beating their breasts and proclaiming against sending the boys of American mothers to fight on the battlefields of Europe. That I do not hesitate...