Word: skins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...belligerent mood, and soon grew more so. They said: "We'd like to see General Johnson walk up to an open-hearth furnace and get his summer pants scorched for $21.84 a week." The hard-boiled ex-cavalry officer retorted that in the saddle he had worn enough skin off his fundament to make half a dozen such critics as the Rank & Filers. Next morning he read in the papers an open letter to himself...
...belt made of rattlesnake skin to keep lumbago away...
...fleet, Admiral Reeves had plenty of time for reflection. In his mind's eye, already he could see his red Battle 'Force flag changed for the blue four-starred ensign of the Commander-in-Chief. Already he could anticipate the ceaseless naval communications on onion skin paper addressed not to COMBATFOR. his old title, but to CINCUS, his new one. Already he could hear the crash of the 17-gun salute that will be his due. Already he could taste the exultation, feel the awful responsibility of being his country's first officer afloat...
...conference was Dr. John W. Perry of Tennessee, chairman of the potent Committee on Episcopacy. A lean, crisp-voiced, white-mustached, Virginia-born minister, Dr. Perry has long worked for home missions and Negro education, was once called by a well-meaning Negro pastor "a friend whose skin is white but whose heart is black...
...Yessenin and Vladimir Maiakovsky (both suicides) ; the conversion of "the mirthful satirist, Valentine Kataev . . . into a faithful Sunday School moralist of the five-year plan"; the groveling recantation of Panteleimon Romanov; the humiliation of Boris Pilnyak, president of the Russian Authors' League, who was forced to save his skin by rewriting a "harmful" book into a "harmless" one; the refusal of Isaac Babyel to publish anything at all under present conditions. A scornful disbeliever in the Communist theory that Art must be Propaganda, Author Eastman is a Communist first but a literary man all the time. He says Lenin...