Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inquiring reporter from Mars would soon discover, the Earth's most popular entertainers are not made of flesh & blood. They are a number of two-dimensional creatures whose native haunts are the animated cartoons. As every cinemaddict knows, the thousands of hand- drawn pictures that go to make up one of these cartoons are the work of many hands. Last May, at Manhattan's Max Fleischer Studios (Popeye, Betty Boop, Screen Songs, Color Classics) 76 members of the Commercial Artists & Designers
...Shanghai shambles to reach the U. S. Hundreds of feet of this hastily, dangerously made record had been ground out by cameramen under fire or within a few minutes after shellburst or bomb-explosion. They tell, as pitilessly as only the camera can, what war means to the flesh it tortures. Mobs stream to shelter from an air raid. After a shellburst in a crowded street, corpses bright with blood and rows of grimy bodies, barely distinguishable from the dusty wreckage, clutter the smashed sidewalk. Stinking human garbage (the street-cleaners have tied handkerchiefs around their mouths and noses...
...down, started gnawing at her. Bootsie was too infirm to be of any help. But Miss Parker's shrieks aroused the neighbors, who called the police. When a patrolman broke into the house he found Miss Parker lying unconscious in a pool of blood, Chino tearing the flesh off her arms. The patrolman knocked Chino off with a chair. Chino rushed at him, snarling. The patrolman pinioned him beneath the chair and shot two bullets into him. Then the officer called an ambulance and Miss Parker was hurried off to a hospital. After doctors had amputated her right...
Behind the Zebra House at the Washington, D. C. Zoo last week, laborers, dug a number of large holes. Then, sombrely, they carted into them, piece by piece, some 8,500 pounds of elephant flesh. Thus to her last resting place went Babe, described in the eulogistic Washington press as not only the oldest, but the most celebrated elephant on earth...
...such passages may find their eyes arrested willy-nilly. Nature to Jean Giono is not a static stage-set but a legion of dynamic actors. His trees not only have their individual smells but their own voices; water is hard or soft like a hostile muscle or like friendly flesh; everything breathes and moves, lives and acts. Sample: "Flights of dead leaves were swept off by the rain. The woods were being stripped bare. Huge water-polished oaks emerged from the downpour with their gigantic black hands clenched in the rain. The muffled breath of the larch forests; the solemn...