Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best book because it is his clearest and most interesting, The Bridegroom Cometh "dramatizes [says Frank] in flesh and blood the loss of the religious instinct in modern American life, and both the need and the promise of its triumphant rebirth." It is really a sequel: all of Frank's writing is focused on the search for a new religion...
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh...
...down below Japan's fleets of bombers, American surgeons, supported by countless church missionary suppers, labor night and day removing the shrapnel which crashes into Chinese flesh almost directly from our own scrap-iron heaps. Their medical supplies diminish as Japan announces that these materials will no longer be admitted...
Forty-three ounces of gray-streaked pigeon flesh flapped into the Union dining hall sun porch at 5:51 o'clock last night, terrifying dozens of Yardlings, who had been peacefully drinking their cream of spinach soup...
...useful nevertheless. Given the tutoring schools, there will be tutoring. Given the primrose path, it will be followed. Perhaps tutoring is unnecessary: perhaps it is unethical and undesirable. But if the temptation exists and is flagrantly flaunted about, few are those who will turn away. For the flesh is weak...