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Just in case anyone at all is interested in the going on in that building north and just to the east of Langdell Hall . . . it is the Retch Laboratory where the Army gets all of its Meteorology. Tactical, and Geological training and just in case anyone by the remotest possibility should want to know about that blonde steno who suns herself out front every day about 1000 . . . her name is Dorie Gordon and she is single...

Author: By S. O. Merlvin parnell, | Title: THE HARVARD SCUTTLEBUTT | 5/21/1943 | See Source »

Aspiring Plug Shrinkers were asked to write to 522 Fifth Avenue, New York City, name the sponsor of their pet retch, and check off what was wrong with his commercial: i.e. was it in bad taste, hokum, tiresome, repulsive, anatomical, silly, syrupy, or what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Plug-Uglies | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

...patient sits down with a pan on his knees and is glumly offered a drink. Almost as soon as he lifts the glass to his lips, the emetine works, and he starts to hours retch, of sometimes uninterrupted suffering nausea. "six . . to ." eight This bitter experience is repeated from two to ten times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Retch and Stay Sober | 4/27/1942 | See Source »

...answering Moscow's objections before the House of Commons, admitted that the Soviets were suspicious of being drawn into an anti-aggression alignment in which they would be left "holding the bag" if Fuchrer Adolf Hitler's armies should strike castward to obtain more territory for the expanding German Retch...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 5/11/1939 | See Source »

People whose daily diet is strychnine retch at Cindy Lou's syrup. Her magnolia-bud ways with men make women who get their guys through manhole methods rage. Swiftly the whole house-party gangs up on her. Then Cindy Lou hits the roof, butts a fat columnist (John Alexander) in the belly, gives the crowd a 100-stripe tongue-lashing, spoils everybody's fun, cooks everybody's goose, flashes a revolver, and winds up with as much loot in Connecticut as Sherman's men got out of Georgia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 10, 1938 | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

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