Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Their friends have long poked fun at Brothers Ralph, Herbert and Joseph Pulitzer for spending too much money on their Lady of the Plaza. In the flesh she is curvesome Model Doris Doscher of Whitestone, N. Y. In bronze, across from Manhattan's Hotel Plaza, she is the work of the late Sculptor Karl Bitter and his successor, Isidore Konti. Her name is Abundance...
According to Lieut. T. S. K. Maunsell he at once put the ship's boat about and steered away from Turkey but the soldiers opened fire. Crack!-A bullet tore through the flesh of Lieut. Maunsell's shoulder. Crack!-Another shot got Surgeon Lieut. D. J. W. Robinson. He spun up, clutching his side, toppled overboard and disappeared. As the Turks kept on firing, wounded Lieut. Maunsell and the remaining British officer dived into the Aegean and swam for dear life toward Greece until picked up by other pleasure-bent Britons...
...stench of sizzling human flesh filled the furnaces of German crematoriums last week as they worked overtime on the bullet-riddled remains of men and women who died fortnight ago in Adolf Hitler's "blood purge" (TIME, July 9). No respect was paid to the fact that cremation is against Catholic tenets. Into the flames, despite the protests of grieving relatives, went the corpse of Dr. Erich Klausener, beloved leader of the Fatherland's Catholic Action Society. What Dr. Klausener had done to deserve death the State had not yet officially said, merely classed him with "other traitors...
...simply because it recounts an experience few men would care to have, but because its skeleton narrative is covered with the flesh & blood of homely detail, Pirate Junk deserves a high place in the true-story library. When Author Johnson read part of his diary to his companions, they grumbled that he had left out everything important and put in irrelevancies. Plain readers will not agree with them...
General Hugh S. Johnson's disposition was made no sweeter because he had to spend the week-end in Washington's Walter Reed Hospital having an abscess treated. But the abscess that troubled his flesh was less sore than a flock of boils which last week broke out on the hide...