Word: nausea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have more of the odd taste displayed by Mr. Cobb at a dinner to Calvin Coolidge last spring in Manhattan given by the United Press Association? With the President and Mrs. Coolidge present, Mr. Cobb concluded festivities with a story of a child afflicted with internal rising and active nausea...
...Scotsman growled, "Ye're nae a gowfer at a'-ye're juist a machine." Another said: ". . . the gr-reatest gowfer in the wur-rld." Carried on Scottish shoulders to his hotel (beside the 18th fairway), Gowfer Jones hastily sought privacy. The terrific strain had ended in an attack of nausea. When it had passed he said: "I'm too happy to talk. To be a champion at St. Andrews is quite too much...
...Brookins, Negress, snorting and scolding: 'Yoh all let me 'lone yoh whaht trash. I gotta ticket!' " Knowing Mrs. Brookins and her family, having attended college with her cousin, a prominent Negro physician of Florida, such would-be cleverness is painful to the point of bordering on nausea. Perhaps TIME could well do a little house cleaning to its own advantage-getting rid of such individuals in its organization who can think only in the stereotypes of two or three decades back. WALTER WHITE
...midst of this unspeakable nausea for himself, a violent tragedy causes to be brought forth from his rage and his despair the question. "why?"--"This 'why' remained standing before him like a pillar, cleaving the distant fog, and toward that pillar he would have to wander involuntarily and almost unconsciously." Laudin comes into contact with Louise Dercum, a famous actres, in whose personality seems to be mirrored all life; through her he attempts to grasp an answer to this "Why," but in the end finds only unconsciousness and nothingness. He goes home. On the other side of a door...
...brittle, reddish white, mined in the free state in Saxony, Bohemia, Cornwall. Bolivia. Its best known use is as bismuth subnitrate, a therapeutic for dyspepsia and diarrhea. Taken internally with water the white powder slowly forms nitric acid, a powerful antiseptic. Its physical properties make it astringent, good for nausea...