Word: seasickness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last December a plump, middle-aged Mexican song writer, Maria Grever, lay bedridden with a serious face infection. Hypodermic injections by an attending physician made her feel as if her bed were tipping. Forced to meditate on this seasick idea, Tunesmith Grever evolved the title Ti-Pi-Tin, composed a tune to go with...
...managerial innards of Marshall Field & Co. have recently been revolving like a seasick stomach. An efficiency expert called in after Field had lost $13,200,000 in four years. Chairman McKinsey fired many an entrenched executive, hired many an outsider, lopped off Field's wholesale 'business and put the company-back into the black. Last November he suddenly died. Last week, having waited for official confirmation of many rumors that Field's was purging the McKinsey policies and people, the Chicago Journal of Commerce headlined the Margeson resignation announcement FIELD'S TO MAKE SWEEPING CHANGES...
Commander Dimutriscu radioed: "His Royal Highness is quite all right except that he is seasick." Soon the Commander reported that large floating blocks of ice, whipped by a howling gale, had "decommissioned the rudder...
...round-trip expense of $3,200. He put down the population of the towns he passed, the number of rooms in the St. Charles Hotel in New Orleans, the speed of railroads, the price of cotton. But the most notable feature of his trip was its hardships: he was seasick on the Lancashire going South ("I would not wish an enemy's dog a sorer punishment than this deadly seasickness"), exasperated by the slowness of railroads as well as by the smoke in cars that threatened to "transfer us into bacon," frightened by the possibility that the train would...
...French train, a dirigible, ugly wall paper. To these sensitively communicated ideographs, Mimic Gardiner has now added a lighthouse (by revolving his body and then suddenly opening his eyes and mouth very wide and hissing slightly when he faces the audience) and a buoy (by crouching, wobbling drunkenly, looking seasick and giving off a bilious bell sound...