Word: fleshes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...narrative with skill, never gets inextricably tangled up. His style is thin and without distinction but he tells a good story. Perhaps because of his poverty of style you never feel more emotionally concerned for any of his people than if you had met them in the flesh at a dinner party so viciously dull as old Hector...
Besides catching animals, Perfilieff, Siemel & Newell propose to broadcast the jungle's noises, by day and night, to civilization. U. S. citizens who hear these programs may later see some of the animal performers, not only in cinema but in the flesh. For interested observers of the expedition's success are the planners of the Chicago Fair. Under the presidency of John Tinney McCutcheon, big-game-hunting cartoonist, "the most complete zoo in the country" is being assembled. Hunter Siemel & friends will have a ready market in Chicago for all the jaguars, tapirs, giant armadillos, anteaters, puma, ocelots...
...other survivor, Katherine Schaub of Newark, reacted to her death sentence as did the men of Jerusalem who, when their city was in danger about 712 B. C., made merry, slew oxen, killed sheep, ate flesh, drank wine, shouted: "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die!" (Isaiah 22: 10-13.) Miss Schaub took her $10,000 cash and bought two motor cars. She amused herself at mountain resorts and hotels. She wrote a book, Gambling With Radium, and when her publishers advised her to improve its literary style, she enrolled as a correspondence pupil at Columbia University...
...Whippings: Girls in the adolescent period have been laid on a bed, or made to lie across a large laundry basket in the attic of the girls' building, and had physical punishment administered on their naked flesh by application of lashes from a piece of rubber piping or tubing . . . from 100 to 250 strokes. In some cases so many strokes were given that one attendant had to relieve another in applying the strokes. "The Water Cure-so called: This was administered by placing the girl in a shower bath compartment, stripped naked except for bloomers. The cold shower overhead...
...consummating the marriage and who left a great deal of money, and after she had cozened Gerard (who loved her) into marrying Agatha (who loved Paul). The treachery disclosed, Paul takes poison, Elizabeth prepares to shoot herself. "A few more seconds of courage, and they would come out where flesh is dissolved, where souls are wed, where incest no longer roams...