Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from broken legs, shock, concussion. Down on the slowest ones then smashed the enormous incandescent mass in a blazing blizzard of fabric, crashing girders, melted duralumin. Still out of the inferno crept struggling figures, afire from head to foot, some stark naked, their clothes burned away, their skin and flesh in sizzling tatters...
...great majority, however, such a return to Cambridge is Impossible. While the spirit is willing, even eager, the flesh or the pocket-book or the conscience is weak, and the invitation to regress to the age of incipient maturity must be regretfully declined. For these it is that the annual meetings of the several Harvard Clubs are designed. These meetings bring together men with a great mutual bond, they serve to acquaint graduates of the University everywhere with the progress that is being made in Cambridge and with the changes that time is slowly effecting along the banks...
...section's largest families. Sheriff Middleton once had a distant cousin named Elman Middleton who was prosecuting attorney of Harlan County and started a crusade for miners' rights. Two years ago Cousin Elman stepped on his automobile starter, went up in a confetti of steel, flesh and dynamite. Since 1934, said the sheriff, he had appointed 379 deputies, of whom only a half-dozen or so were paid by the county. The rest were hired by the operators as "special guards." Senator La Follette produced an investigators' report which showed that of Sheriff Middleton...
...until, with three weeks rent due at her boardinghouse, she gets a job as waitress at a party given by Producer Oliver Niles (Adolphe Menjou), does Esther encounter her hero in the flesh. By this time, like the rest of Hollywood, she is aware that Norman Maine (Fredric March) is an habitual drunkard whose dipsomaniac pranks are an intolerable nuisance or an aspect of his charm, depending on the point of view. To Esther, whom Maine accosts in the kitchen, escorts home and brings to the studio for a screen test, they are presumably the latter. To Niles...
...chimpanzees in Florida, Psychologist Robert Yerkes of Yale proved that other animals besides man could become drug fiends. With evident gusto, dapper Dr. Yerkes told the philosophers how he had made morphine addicts of two male apes eight years old. After the animals became reconciled to having their flesh pricked by dummy syringes, they were daily given one milligram of morphine per kilogram of body weight and the dose was increased to four milligrams (a much smaller intake than that of human addicts). Symptoms of addiction were increased "grooming" (scratching, skin picking, hair plucking), restlessness, nocturnal activity, gastric and bowel...