Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Flesh & Meat...
...validity of this expression, I spoke with several people including a theatrical press agent, a reporter on Variety, the theatrical trade paper, a theatrical manager and several theatrical agents. None of these people had ever heard this expression used. We are all acquainted with the expression "flesh entertainment" which applies to entertainment provided by living performers...
...Flesh entertainment" is a "meat show" to the less elegant rank & file of the theatrical profession...
Next day Preacher Lee was hoarse, weary. In the morning he ploughed along, still in the Old Testament, finally whispered: "The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak." Averaging about 185 words a minute, he had preached 21 hr. 20 min., spoken some 200,000 words. He went to bed, soon arose feeling fit and claiming he had gained a pound. Then he donned a white silk blouse of his own design, which he usually wears only at baptismal services, and posed for photographers...
...Manhattan's St. Luke's Hospital, Edward Lawford, brother of Actress Betty Lawford (The Women), brought Hearst Sports Columnist Martene W, ("Bill") Corum with flesh wounds in his left hip and both legs. Columnist Corum said he had been hit by a stray bullet while walking along Madison Avenue. When police continued to question him, it came out that he had been with Ruth Lamar (divorced wife of Banker Robert Lehman) at the Stork Club, where a quarrel with Lawford started, that he had taken Miss Lamar to her Park Avenue apartment, where Lawford shot him. Wrote Corum...