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Foot. The foot of one Eric Hamilton was crushed in an elevator. A tuberculous condition of both bone and flesh of the heel developed. Dr. William F. Reinhoff, resident surgeon of Johns Hopkins Hospital, began by cutting off the tuberculous part of the heel. He then cut a deep wound in the calf of Hamilton's uninjured leg, put the remainder of the stricken heel into the wound, and proposed to leave Hamilton for a month in that position. Dr. Reinhoff said the flesh of heel and leg will grow together; a new heel will be built from...
...same token, Irene despised the flesh. Her father's memory was an abomination-not less so since her sister was every inch his daughter. She made her prayers with the passion wherewith they loved...
...ebullient chapter on the British lecturer in America, Mr. Hamilton tries to trace the origin of the myth that authors are also necessarily speakers-"but for the good natured curiosity of American audiences to see British authors in the flesh, I doubt whether a single one of us would have ventured ever to get on his hind legs and stumble through a speech...
TARNISH?A keen study of the world, the flesh and the gold digger...
...Animal philosophy has even degraded the noble art of dramatics to such stuff as 'Up in Mabel's Room' or 'Getting Gertie's Garter'. And along with this has followed the degradation of maidenly modesty. Evolution is a philosophy of the flesh. The modern drama is an exaltation of the flesh and the glorification of the brute. Magazines today are simply dripping with sensualism. The best seller of today compares most unfavorably with the best seller of 50 years...