Word: skins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...droll doctor is Rollo Eugene Dyer, assistant director of the National Institute of Health. His favorite drollery last summer was to pull up his trouser leg and exhibit a small, fine-meshed cage strapped to his skin. Friends peeping into the cage beheld a herd of fleas contentedly nipping at the doctor's epidermis. Raillery was always in order. Dr. Dyer is a collector of stamps. Had he now become a flea collector? He is fond of dogs. Was he shielding his dogs from vermin? No, Dr. Dyer would chuckle, and his friends seldom realized that he had ceased...
...sauntered one evening on to the stage of a Manhattan theatre and proceeded to dance as he had danced many times in the streets and cafés of Spain. There was nothing ingratiating about Escudero's performance that evening. He strutted about like a cock in smart, skin-tight costumes which Artist Pablo Picasso had designed for him. He did amazing footwork to a dozen complicated rhythms. He conversed with his castanets, brutally, insolently, insinuatingly. He swelled out his chest and shot meaningful glances at his partners, Carmela and Carmita. He clucked with his tongue, sniffed with...
...watching a team victoriously beat back the attacks of the Army. Since that muddy October afternoon, when Percy Haughton carried his first football for Harvard, grey and golden jerseys have pounded on Crimson seventeen times. Baronchos have given way to limousines, leg-o'mutton sleeves are replaced by seal-skin capes, the rivalry continues...
...undoubtedly aided by men who never saw the inside of a Harvard classroom, rallied in time to save one remaining upright at the steel-stand end of the field. The fight lasted for nearly as hour, with Harvard victorious in the lumber business if not in the pig skin industry that...
...diet for at least six months. He may eat no flesh of fierce animals, may never go hunting alone, must exculpate himself by sending a formal payment to the widow or a near relative of his victim. Then the head catcher may peel his trophy, artfully shrink the empty skin, display the head as proof of his prowess...