Word: gulps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...idea of observing the stomach directly through an inserted pipe originated as far back as the middle of the 19th Century, when Adolf Kussmaul in Germany persuaded a professional sword-swallower to gulp down a long, straight metal tube in the interests of science. But until Dr. Schindler invented the flexible gastroscope in 1932, gastroscopy was seldom practiced, for it was difficult, dangerous, painful...
...your hurry?", described a play as having "the same relation to the drama as a dollar watch has to the Greenwich Observatory." This week Critic Anderson has published a richly illustrated book on the U. S. theatre,* turning its history into a swift, 100-page dash. His gulp-and-go-on method makes The American Theatre read like a Reader's Digest version of a massive tome; but if valuable matters are slighted, dull ones are junked. Some facts...
...tray which he set down on the stool in front of the Senior. "The hostess says that your every wish is her command," the bus boy whispered huskily. "Any answer?" "Nope, no answer," stammered the red-faced Senior as he peeked guiltily under the napkin, then sneaked outside to gulp down his steaming order of griddles...
More conventional in his choice of genius, John Cowper Powys finds no difficulty in swallowing Nietzsche, Milton, Poe, Dickens, Proust, all at one gulp. Of all literary "appreciations" his are the most fulsome, the most ardent, the most consciously designed to engulf readers with a vicarious sense of cosmic genius. And hence Powys' book is the more likely to be read, since, like Durant's Story of Philosophy, it enables readers to enjoy the classics without reading them...
...satisfaction and bid for these by sensational means." Largest group of iodine drinkers, added Dr. Moore, are females between 14 and 20 (they are home near a medicine cabinet most of the time). Largest group of males are between 26 and 30. Whether they know that an ordinary gulp of iodine is seldom fatal, Dr. Moore could not say. He inclined to think not, however, since druggists glue a suggestive skull and bones to every iodine bottle...