Word: fleshes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exert his only important function unhampered, so he toyed idly with the idea in the columns of the London Times. Mr. Shaw is still at large. In direct antithesis we have Thomas Hardy, writing in the fullness of his fatalism "that thought is a disease of the flesh." The Vagabond will not sit in judgment over either of the gentleman. He has lost all interest in Mr. Shaw since he trundled his apple cart from Warsaw to New York at a considerable financial remuneration. But he is very interested in the door Thomas Hardy...
...Everybody knows I have a perfect torso. . . . Painters now, they're more on inspiration, but sculptors are solid. They know what they want, and a girl that can't give them the flesh is no good to them...
...nonpayment of debts was a pre-requisite of the aristocrat. That follow lived hard, died young, and rode to the Devil with the rest, fleeing before the window smashing that paved the way for our present commercial leisure class. His diaphanous lady has also gone the way of more flesh, and into her place swings the rebust, long-limbed woman of our time, with a figure for health and a comradely eye for a horse. Literature falters before her baffling smile, and the sad young men are troubled. To those confirmed in the opinion that the classic chastity...
When Andrew ("Old Hickory'') Jack son clumped into the White House the U. S. dream was made flesh. "After An drew Jackson every boy was being told he might be President of the United States." The North began to hustle. "Business ceased to be a mere occupation which must be carried on in accordance with the moral code. It had itself become part of that code. Money-making having become a virtue, it was no longer controlled by the virtues, but ranked with them, and could be weighed against them when any conflict occurred...
...collection includes the only remaining book from John Harvard's library, a ponderous volume entitled, "The Christian Warfare against the Devill, World and Flesh. Wherein is described their nature, the maner of their fight and meanes to obtaine victorye. By John Dowane, Bachelor in Divinity and preacher of God's word...