Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plenty of sound, solid flesh is what ample Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands thinks should be on Crown Princess Juliana. From this opinion many a prospective royal suitor of past years differed and so did the jolly Princess, who used to make wry jokes about the thickness of her calves (TIME, Aug. 12, 1935). Last week portly matrons of The Hague dithered as the Crown Princess returned from her three-month honeymoon radiant and 23 lb. lighter. She and slim, sporting Prince Consort "Benno." who knows his way around Europe's swank pleasure spots, were said on their honeymoon...
...great swelling follows contusion of arm or leg, tension in the tissues should be relieved quickly by bold incisions into the flesh on opposite sides of the limb. Copious dressings of weak bichloride of mercury solution will then promote healing. Such incisions are rarely necessary for contusions of the trunk or head. "An uncomplicated wound should not cause intense pain...
Fever therapists are waiting for some industrial physicist to build a tiny radio tube which will emit a wave eight-tenths of a meter (31.2 in.) long at a frequency of 320 million cycles per second. Such radiation would heat only the patient's blood and not affect flesh or bone...
...they were gone ... it paled every window; drove old gentlemen further and further into the leather smelling recesses of clubs; and old ladies to sit eyeless, leather cheeked, joyless among the tassels and antimacassars of their bedrooms and kitchens. Triumphing in its wantonness it emptied the streets; swept flesh before it; and coming smack into a dust cart standing outside the Army and Navy Stores, scattered along the pavement a litter of old envelopes; twists of hair; papers already blood smeared, yellow smeared, smudged with print and sent them scudding to plaster legs, lamp posts, pillar boxes, and fold themselves...
Author Kennedy's most skillfully constructed novel, Together and Apart attempts no diagnostic moralizing, leaves the reader to decide whether the Cannings' divorce scars were tokens of a constitutional middle-class weakness or a virulent old germ to which all flesh is heir...