Word: bellywash
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...dirty old men ("We take you now to the Garden of Allah-in case you'd like to do a bit of planting"). Then he runs off the stage and up to his flat, where he makes a few fast phone calls and moves a shipment of bootleg bellywash. Then he runs back to the skin parlor for the second show ("This old slag takes care of her health-if she's not in bed by eleven, she goes home"). Then he runs down the street to a jobber he knows and sells him a sack of smuggled...
...Soul. The Milhollands is an uproarious allfours romp through the whole world of U.S. writing, publishing and book-promotion. There is the eager young Yaleman who, after feeling that his "generation" has been "betrayed," first by T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, then by the Marxists, winds up ballyhooing bellywash on national hookups. There is the Purity League's investigation of the Booklover when its personal columns sprout a rash of "advertisements by 'gentlemen of robust constitution' in search of 'non-prudish ladies responsive to the new dance rhythms...
After months of bellywash on the subject, we at last get a good close-up view of who Alfred Renton Bridges is, and why. Your "C.I.O. To Sea" story struck me as one of the most objective and at the same time interesting pieces of reporting in a long while...
...record Secretary Mills said of the proposed beer: "People who have tasted it tell me that you couldn't drink enough to get anything more than a bellyache. If that's right this bellywash won't raise as much money as my estimates...
...some friends, fell unconscious. They rushed him to an emergency hospital where Dr. Raymund Joseph Millzner was presiding. Dr. Millzner judged from Cuthbert Reiveley's blue lips and fingernails what had happened, washed out the patient's stomach with a solution of baking soda. Sure enough, the bellywash smelled like peach kernels, the distinctive odor of cyanide...
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