Word: fleshes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Peek protested to Secretary Wallace. In vain, for Counsel Frank had Felix Frankfurter's approval and the support of Dr. Tugwell. So Mr. Peek, instead of using his legal counselor, hired his own lawyer out of his own pocket. But Thorn Frank was too pointed for his flesh. The time came when Mr. Peek gave Mr. Wallace the choice of accepting his own resignation or Frank's. With the advice of Dr. Tugwell and the consent of the President, Mr. Wallace accepted Mr. Peek's (TIME...
...number as her genuine winning ticket. She goes to his dressing room to offer him the money she won, but he misunderstands. Months later after Raft has discovered and made his fortune out of the rumba, a process that involves a good deal of exciting music and exposed brunette flesh, the story wriggles up to a climax in which gangsters threaten to shoot Raft during the opening dance of his new show. His partner wilts. Miss Lombard steps from her box and joins him in the rumba. Somehow this frail anecdote is definitely pleasant, brightened with the tropical costumes...
...Wall Streets, Manhattan, marched a big delegation of pacifist picketers one day last week. They were there, according to their placards, to damn the "huge profits of Morgan and his U. S. Steel Corporation." In the process of damning they completely failed to recognize Mr. Morgan in the flesh as the banker came & went for lunch. Day before, it was learned that Mr. Morgan had dipped into his art collection for $1,500,000 in ready cash to help his executors settle his estate, and U. S. Steel Corp. reported a deficit...
Typhus, more than cold or Russian bullets, made Napoleon retreat from Moscow. Cold, hungry soldiers lay in their own filth on rotten straw. According to de Kirckhoff, a corps surgeon, despairing men ate leather and even human flesh...
...broken thigh is strong enough to walk on. Dr. Roger Anderson of Seattle gets the patient out of bed in two days by drilling one hole in the femur just above the break and a second just below the break. He puts long steel pins through the holes and flesh and attaches steel braces to the pins. The braces prevent the leg from shortening, permit the patient to walk on crutches...