Word: skins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...extraordinary visual memory and a sculptor's grasp of three-dimensional movement. His famed drawings of lawyers, legislators, railway travelers, acrobats, street characters and bourgeois at home were done usually at night, under great journalistic pressure, without models or sketches. Although Balzac said Daumier had "Michelangelo under the skin," until 1860, when he was 52, he had scarcely any time to give to painting. When he was able to work in oils he went at it slowly using tentative outlines and building up his forms with wash after wash of semi-transparent color to get the right modeling...
...Dressed in my costume as the Venetian courtesan in The Tales of Hoffmann, I looked for all the world like one of Casanova's memoirs. . . . Thunderous applause and generous bravos (some of these, I suspect, for my extremely feminine thighs and legs, well shown off by smooth. skin-tight trunks in my third-act costume.... I knew that four of my beaus were in the audience. Each one had carefully let me know where he would be sitting. The impulse to play a little joke on them all was too much for me. As the opera went...
...Above 90° the naked body begins to sweat. The flow of blood to the skin, bringing excess heat to be radiated, may be five or six times normal. Even so, if the subject exercises, he may not be able to eliminate heat fast enough and his temperature may rise four or five degrees...
...harmony. Slick Jones stood there, mouth agape, until he couldn't stand it any longer. He slipped out the door, and in a moment returned with his snare drum and cymbals. He got to work immediately, grinning from ear to ear. He is famed for wearing out a drum-skin once a week, and wearing out a pair of sticks every performance...
...destruction last week, U. S. correspondents and cameramen leaped into any kind of car they could hire at Shanghai, tore off over 160 miles of road so rough that a jagged rock punctured the crankcase of one car. Nimbly the Chinese chauffeur repaired it with a piece of chamois skin and a can opener, dashed on with his cargo of foreign devils bound for the scene of advertised atrocities...