Word: bellyful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Collector Gellert says he heard Preacher's Belly in a small Alabama church one Sunday morning before the service began:
Religion is somethin' fo' de soul But preacher's belly done git it all. . . .
A onetime farmer and garage mechanic, Leslie C. Peltier is now a commercial draftsman by day. Eighteen years ago, after reading a book called The Friendly Stars, he made his first telescope, a puny two-incher. Both Princeton and Harvard have now lent him larger instruments. He has observed some...
"The Connecticut Yankee", joint product of Mark Twain and Will Rogers, flashes again its jolly anachronisms. Myrna Loy and Frank Albertson do the supporting, along with a host of telephones, automobiles, tanks, and machine guns. There is many an occasion for a belly-laugh, but one can't help feeling...
Surprisingly few Civil War stories are included. One of them tells of Stonewall Jackson spying a straggler up a tree. " 'What the devil are you doing up a persimmon tree?' asked the General. 'Eatin' 'simmons, Gen'l, the private replied. 'What, eating persimmons...