Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alas! says Cadart, life is not so easy. The peaceable snail has a host of enemies: the weather, rats, turtles, crows, foxes, ducks, parasitic insects that lay eggs in its flesh, and picnickers who abandon bits of canned heat, which is death to snails. When Cadart has described all the troubles of les escargots, he is close to tears...
...subject of the snail's bouchage (stopping up) is dear to the professional heart of Author Cadart. Before snails hibernate, their flesh is full of small, hard particles of lime that make them less desirable in the eyes of gourmets. The lime is a reserve for building the winter door, so when a snail is dug from his refuge, his flesh is in top condition, free of shelly sand...
...Brooks Brothers will advertise shorts in their store windows. Nor is there any justifiable objection from those who dislike bare legs. Socks, when worn properly, are no more than than three inches below the knee. At best--or at worst--depending on one's sartorial Weltanschauung, five inches of flesh is exposed...
...also a lonely misanthrope who saw the world and himself with intolerable clarity. After one three-day binge he groaned to a friend: "To be able to tear off my flesh, to get rid of this awful, horrifying skin we have . . ." He once wrote, melodramatically but perhaps not inaccurately: "I hold a beast, an angel and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, downthrow and upheaval . . ." In the poems that will remain long after the last alcoholic insult to that skin he loathed, there are many victories...
...nearly a breach of contract, but law professor William W. McCurdy got his Horse Dobbin yesterday. Dobbin, a mythical beast which figures prominently in McCurdy's course on contracts, became very real horse flesh behind Austin Hall during the 11 a.m. class break when two first-year students, Fred L. Atwood and Henfry B. Shepard, Jr., presented McCurdy with a hungry nag rented for the occasion. But the renter for the occasion. But the renter left his map of Cambridge in his other pants, and the rentees very nearly had a horse as mythical as McCurdy's. Two hundred waiting...