Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese Government, with its practised flair for choosing the safe moment to be offensive, took advantage last week of world-wide preoccupation with Britain's Battle Royal to ram yet another thorn into China's flesh...
...slain on the premises. Cats are bought in the neighborhood, drowned and embalmed, but Ward's does not advertise for cats lest owners of lost pets take umbrage. Few years ago when the Rochester zoo elephant died, Ward's bought the carcass, macerated and stripped off the flesh, sold the skeleton piecemeal. .The best human skeletons now come from Mexico since he U. S. S. R. has forbidden their exportation. Inferior ones are bought from India and Japan...
...find myself stretched upon the ground. Some one rolls me over and says I am dead, which I want to deny but can't. So I think I must be dead too. An ambulance whisks my body to the morgue, where I am laid on a cold slab. My flesh is cold, the blood dried, and my eyes wide and staring. Lying there naked, I am about to request the attendant to cover me with more than a sheet, when I awake with a strong wind blowing through the casement and on my uncovered self...
...color is more complimentary than it has been to any other actress who has so far tried it. In the second place, the North African desert is her specialty. In the third place, if there is any actress in Hollywood whom cinemaddicts have always yearned to see in the flesh-to which color film is the closest practical approach-Marlene Dietrich...
...zanne. Many a loan exhibition of the works of this founder of modern painting has the U.S. seen in recent years, but this at the Bignou Gallery had the distinction of having, in the flesh and walking about the rooms, the white-bearded old gentleman who discovered Cézanne as an artist: Dealer-Collector Ambroise ("Fifi") Vollard (TIME, Nov. 13, 1933). Dealer Vollard, who has trapdoors cut in the doors of his Paris house for his favorite cats, but seldom bothers to give them names, admitted that he had posed 115 times for the Cézanne portrait...