Word: retch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard's team includes Paul Weissman, Dusty Burke, Burt Eggan Mitch Roscuhottz, Larry Pierce, Bill Thompson, Jr., and Pote Retch. Other '52 Players who won't sea action today are Jim Hilbodi, Dave Symmes, and Johany Sears...
...party? Only in order not to lose their positions and to save their families. . . We undertook all that we could to get our teachers again, but the law was against right. Now we have got new teachers who were never teachers before and mostly big Nazis in the Third Retch. But they were not in the Party! I can say to you that this is a great evil...
...Waugh's creamy trade name for a corpse. A tale of love and suicide among the morticians of a cemetery that physically resembles Hollywood's fabulous Forest Lawn (TIME, Aug. 24, 1942), The Loved One was either Novelist Waugh's most funereal horse laugh or a retch of glacial rage at two of America's most cherished deceits-its effort to prettify death and to vulgarize love, and hence escape the impact of both. Intellectuals were bitterly divided over Waugh's intention. But the book, which was richly laced with the fun of embalming fluid...
...Notebook" column for his newly purchased Chicago Daily News, dynamic John S. Knight launched a blast at civilian complacency in general, at exuberant Elsa Maxwell's recent Hollywood "Victory Party," celebrating the liberation of France, in particular. Concluded Publisher Knight: "I'm afraid it made me retch" (TIME...
...Last Time I Saw Paris. Of course, Judy has never actually seen Paris, but after a few cocktails, what the hell. . . . Yes, Elsa, it must have been a wonderful party. I am sure you thought it was just too, too divine. I'm afraid it made me retch...