Word: fleshes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Behind every refusal lay suspicion that the real purpose of the conference was to raise the Blue Eagle's ghost, put new flesh & feathers on it. Gist of each declination: "We are recovering nicely by ourselves. All we ask the Government to do is to leave us alone." Attributing objections to "a bad case of NRA jitters," Coordinator Berry announced on the party's eve that acceptances of his 5,200 invitations were running about 99% for Labor, 70% for Industry. Unemployment and taxation, he thought, would be the chief subjects of discussion. Coordinator Berry was primed...
Dead or alive, the vast majority of criminals are identified by facial appearance and fingerprints. But the Society of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery has been shown cases where tinkering with bones and flesh has completely altered facial appearance. And smart wrongdoers like the late John Dillinger and Homer Van Meter may mutilate their fingertips with acid or otherwise until comparison with filed prints is highly difficult if not impossible. Dillinger and Van Meter did not succeed in preventing identification, but medical men agree that burning or surgery may obliterate the finger patterns entirely. Last week a bald, hulking criminologist named Carleton...
Other Dr. Pease "poisons": tea, coffee, flesh meats, vinegar, all condiments, most medical drugs, vaccines and antitoxins and tobacco. Dr. Pease, who got the New York subways to ban smoking in 1909, always tells of a horse he knew who got tea mixed in its feed and jumped off a cliff. "I have had a man." he said, "a nicotine slave, writhing upon the floor of my office crying, 'Why didn't someone tell me it was harmful? Why didn't someone tell me it was harmful?' He could not break the habit and he passed...
...last act moves with power and speed, clearly marking it off from the first two. Mr. John Barnard has opportunity to justify his selection for the male lead and does so convincingly and with proper restraint. Miss Hall undergoes a questionable psychological change which should bring goose flesh, but her voice doesn't change...
...issue TIME has gone the way of many flesh in the U. S. by saying "Italy sent a Bugatti racer." As every foreign car enthusiast and owner should know, the Italian-named Bugattis are the product of Ettore Bugatti, Molsheim, France...