Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hatchets, swallowed strips of blazing cotton. Some carried fat, dust-colored puff adders which they encouraged to bite them. Others swallowed molten wax. Circles of crazy dancing men moved through the streets tossing live sheep into the air, jerking the animals apart as they fell, stuffing bits of bloody flesh into their mouths...
While on this subject I might say that the bluish meat of this bird, tho not attractive to the eyes is very attractive to the palate, resembling partridge flesh...
When science was young it was possible for a species of goose, whose nesting place had never been found, to be regarded as a creature of marine origin, hatched from a barnacle and thus, not being "flesh," eligible for Roman Catholic dinner tables on Friday. Modern science knows that the barnacle goose reproduces itself by laying eggs in the far North, like many another bird. Ornithologists have found the nest of every bird that flies (or does not fly), with very few exceptions...
...Hoover will sponsor the Akron at the christening Aug. 8, at the Goodyear-Zeppelin dock at Akron, Ohio. But Mrs. Hoover, practiced though she is at swinging bottles against bows, will swing no bottle of liquid air. The stuff is dangerous to handle, would instantly freeze any bit of flesh upon which it might splash. Instead Mrs. Hoover will set free a flock of white pigeons...
...Pittsburgh, police found Genevieve Monarch Miller in a car with three men, her arm bloody with the letters ED MILLER, carved into the flesh by a penknife. Arrested, forced into a hospital, Mrs. Miller explained that she had allowed her husband to carve her. "I love him," said Genevieve Monarch Miller...