Word: fleshes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Americana (Joseph Patrick McEvoy, librettist; Lee Shubert. producer) is dedicated this year, "with special permission of the copyright owner Frank D. Roosevelt," to the Forgotten Man. The Forgotten Man himself, a nondescript in an ill-fitting suit, wearing an undersized brown derby, is presented in the flesh. He is impersonated by foolish-faced Don Barclay, who rises to sing about himself in the opening scene: With hope in his chest And an egg on his "vest- With pride in his glance And a shine on his pants- Uncle Sam needs a man who can take it! Comedian Barclay has little...
...understand and express what, if anything, the U. S. is driving at. Though he has always sympathized with the individual Americano aspiring to be an individual, he has been impressed by the intelligentsiae preoccupation with Communism. Beyond Desire, the muddled result of his latest feelings, is neither fish, flesh nor good red Communist herring...
...Mary Knight dressed herself as a man, boasted afterward that she was the only woman to see Dr. Gorgulov lose his head. She told how Gorgulov, his hands and feet heavily manacled, hobbled forward; how the back of the prisoner's neck was shaved "to better expose his flesh to the sharp knife of 'the widow' [guillotine]." Then ''like a flash the neck piece clamped Gorgulov into position and, before he could gasp, the knife, well weighted, fell nine feet. . . . There was no autopsy...
...rejoined their father, John Davison Rockefeller, in the East. Long estranged too, and querulously jealous of his own health at 93, Father Rockefeller had not gone to see her at all. "He travels only between Florida and his home," John D. Jr. explained. In her last days, with the flesh fallen from her face and the death mask showing. Edith Rockefeller had come to resemble her father closely...
...rubber companies busy themselves developing new uses for rubber. They have branched into everything from dirigibles to syringes, from road paving to toothbrushes. Last week B. F. Goodrich Co.'s subsidiary, Miller Rubber Products, announced that after six years of experimentation it had perfected a new rubber doll. Flesh tints are ingrained, the skin soft, the limbs flexible. There is no interior bracing to make it heavy and cumbersome. James Taylor, head of the doll division, says that it was first manufactured only in an 18-in. size, but that the cry for smaller sizes forced them to supply...