Word: fleshing
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...ponies are now in excellent shape, in spite of the hard usage that they encountered in the Lancer's match. Since then they have been exercised daily and have succeeded in discarding all superfluous flesh...
...assembled last week, Canadians placed many a bet on robust, hearty Premier King and on his traditional rival, sleek, meticulous, former Premier Meighen. The odds stood at about 3 to 1 that the urban aristocrat, Meighen, cannot politically, unhorse Countryman King, who has "broken in" many a horse of flesh and blood...
...Martin grown up?); there is Joyce, the little girl whom Martin liked? and besides there is Martin, in body a man but really little Martin never-grown-up. Then begins the game of "Spies." Martin, the child, sees them, their petty annoyances, troubles of the spirit and of the flesh brought on by the loss of childhood's simplicity, and his meeting them with that simplicity puts them all in strange confusion. Little Martin in a man's body learns and learns. But just before he learns the final tragedy of growing up, the game is over; mercifully the clock...
...James A. Greenwood. The seasoned Rusk was victorious at the polls. But later he presented a resolution to the county commissioners declaring that Greenwood had illegally retained a typewriter and law books belonging to the public office. Infuriated, Greenwood, overcome at the polls but not overcome in the flesh, engaged with Rusk. Before one of Greenwood's lusty blows, the skull of Rusk fractured. Physicians shook their heads...
...Catlett, who first gained great popularity a few years ago in "Sally," when he played a comedy part along with Leon Errol, has invented a number of widely used and expressive phrases Among them are "So's your old man," and "Press the flesh," "Give me five," and "Mitt me," the last three all invitations to shake hands...