Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present 100 persons of flesh, and 100 hearts of steel...
...children. And some of the most popular (e. g., W. H. Hudson's Green Mansions) are laid in a realistic setting no naturalist could carp at. Dr. Gion's scene is a modern town, presumably German; its characters do not pretend to be anything but flesh & blood, but its effect is definitely fairy-taleish. A quiet book, of oldfashioned, deferential sentiment and gentle resignation, it should appeal to readers who want a change from "real life...
...dietary laws. These inflexible laws have been a major factor in keeping Jews socially cohesive during the centuries. The laws, however, have their sensible loopholes. In a case of life-or-death, a Jew may eat anything. But no good Jew considers racketeering or carelessness a necessity. Healthiness of flesh is the basis of kashruth. Animals must have cloven hoofs and chew the cud (but no cud-chewing camels, no split-hoof swine). Fish must have both fins and scales (no sharks, no catfish, no shellfish). Birds must not prey. No creature that "goeth upon the belly" is kosher...
...absorption in business duties, classes, shopping; and the Vagabond is thankful. Now he notices the slim young girl in the rear of the store, dressed in poor dishevelled black, and it does not matter what she is buying, what grey routine she is coming from; she is there, bright flesh, smiling, unworried, absolute in the moment, against a gaudy background of boxes and labels, like some person in a novel. The streetcars pass, carrying people to no destination; they sit in the brightly lit rows of seats, staring out, they flicker above the roar of the car-wheels, and exist...
...formula for travel books. His readers can now expect of him not only a racily written report of outlandish foreign parts but a frank confession that he has gone as native as he cared to. In Jungle Ways (TIME, April 6, 1931) his description of what human flesh tastes like tickled the curiosity of more readers than it shocked. Though there is nothing so startling in his latest book, Traveler Seabrook again has an unusual trip to report, as usual reports it well...