Word: skinful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Long stockings, black, and high-buttoned shoes . . . Then I had a stiff high collar and white linen cuffs. My dress was all braided in the front, and the long jacket I wore, that was also braided. We bought the braid in patterns. My gloves were tan-colored, doe skin, they called them. And then, the ring...
...Taste, an unprincipled gourmet bets heavily on the perceptiveness of his nose and palate, puts on a superb demonstration of winetasting, but outsmarts himself. In Skin, a down-and-outer discovers that the portrait tattooed on his back is signed by a famous painter and is worth a fortune, so he places himself in the hands of a grafter who offers him a life of ease, only to lose the very skin off his back. In Mr. Feasey, two earnest cheats bet all their money on the ringer they enter in a greyhound race, but the 17 bookies who take...
...most popular painting in the sizable collection of the Des Moines Art Center is the late George Wesley Bellows' Aunt Fanny (opposite), and her box-office appeal is well deserved. In the wrinkled skin and watchful eyes of the brisk old lady Bellows has reflected the feeling of affection tinged with awe that almost everyone has about a favorite aunt...
...Down There." Root's plans for an assault on the record last week were carefully detailed. Three well-equipped boats bobbed around like corks in the turbulent Gulf Stream off Miami at the 100-fathom mark. One boat carried Root and seven other skin-diving friends who planned to station themselves at various depths along the 1/16 -in steel strand that marked the descent. Standing by for possible rescue work was a Coast Guard cutter. In the third boat was an oceanographer of the University of Miami's marine laboratories.The oceanographer would trace Root's descent with...
...French citizens; there was a hangdog look about them . . . The people are poorly dressed; the women have colorless, frizzy hair, the men grey faces, and they walk as if defeated . . . The weather was grey. Paris seemed numb ... I would have to relearn France and get back into my own skin...