Search Details

Word: fleshier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...pulchritude, Edward W. Bok looks no more like our martyred hero than Benny Leonard* looks like William Howard Taft. Did you ever see Bok? Have you any one's word for the "striking likeness" [TIME, May 31, p. 17] besides his? The distinguished immigrant-editor-publicist-pacifist has a fleshier face than President Wilsons ever was. His type is far less intellectual, broader, heavier in every way; strong?yes?but not so magnificently "horse-jawed . . . lean templed . . . highbrowed." You published an excellent but disrespectful description of Woodrow Wilson, all but the "longish ears," which you must have transplanted from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 7, 1926 | 6/7/1926 | See Source »

| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Next