Word: skins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shadowy little bistro, telephoned a garage and ordered a bite to eat. A few age-stained canvases were hung about the walls. One even had a hole in it. Lewenthal flicked on his cigarette lighter and looked more closely at the grimy thing. He almost jumped out of his skin...
...rough skin...
Playwright Thornton Wilder, working & playing about Europe since September, arrived in Milan to help in the Italian production of an old play (The Skin of Our Teeth) before starting work...
...sherry, five of port, one of claret and two of raspberry . . . We had also two bottles of pickles." Hellfire was the only thing that was ever known to scare little Arthur-and Mother Doyle soon fixed that by offering her son the hearty advice: "Wear flannel next your skin, my dear boy, and never believe in eternal punishment...
...color lyric with an insinuating tune (as in My Heart Belongs to Daddy). But the true Porter hallmark is cut in the bittersweet lament of What Is This Thing Called Love? and in the sultry, Latin fervor of Begin the Beguine, I've Got You Under My Skin, In the Still of the Night and Get Out of Town...