Word: liverish
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...Vichy, largest and most famed of the spas, where Roman officers dunked their ladies 2,000 years ago, crowds of liverish patients are going through a similar waterlogged routine. Said the director of a Vichy spa: "The Americans aren't coming, or the British either, since the Americans don't get bad livers from their colonies and the British don't get money from the Bank of England. But if you think Vichy is out of fashion, you couldn't be more wrong. We've never had such figures in our history...
...long, liverish, open letter to Prime Minister Mackenzie King, Chicago's James T. Farrell, one of the most earnest authors and worst writers in the U.S., took issue with Canadian censorship. The reason: Ottawa had placed a ban on importation of his new novel, Bernard Clare, a lacklustre portrait of the artist as a young...
Five nights a week at 7:45 E.S.T., approximately 1% of New York City's radio listeners dial station WHN for 15 minutes of liverish news analysis by a balding frenetic, German-born commentator named Johannes Steel. Fortnight ago he had a proud announcement: he would be the American Labor Party's candidate for Congressman from Manhattan's lower East Side...
Hurrying to Washington to meet the latest indictment, America's most successful underdog missed no cue. Now, after a lifetime of oppression in Massachusetts, he was being crucified in Washington. Explained Curley, his ruddy, liverish face messianic: "I have . . . refused to be a rubber stamp while serving as a member of Congress. . . . Indictments, threats or pressure of any character shall not deter me from doing what in my judgment is best for the American people...
...town on business and has a rendezvous with Pulham. Ancient yearnings stir under his stuffed shirt-in spite of the curt, hard-boiled way she interrupts their tryst to tell off a recalcitrant customer by telephone. An hour later his wife, who suspects him of feeling a little liverish, half-kittenishly, half-remorsefully entices him away to a weekend in the Berkshires...