Word: stomach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have an anecdote that involves Mr. Marx: several years ago, at Vallauris, France, Irving Berlin and I met Picasso; he'd been making abstract statues-incorporating broken bits and pieces from his children's toys (one creation had a tin washbasin in its stone stomach and a toy propeller imbedded in its navel). We promised to send the children some new toys and asked Louis Marx to ship a few and bill us (which he never did). Santa Marx sent a huge crate of toys, but it took two years for the children to finally receive them, because...
Leriche protested increduously that Napoleon was commonly thought to have died of stomach cancer. Just then Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, the evening's guest of honor, caught sight of the college's collection of pickled viscera and got sick to his stomach. The conversation ended abruptly...
...practical phase, the Radiological Society of North America was told at its 41st annual meeting in Chicago. The X-ray movies verify accurately what diagnostic physicians have only been able to guess about, e.g., the swallowing process (which doctors found varies greatly from person to person), the stomach's pushing action (gastric peristalsis), speech defects, heart anomalies...
Talking Poor Mouth. Behind the Japanese businessman's broad smile lies an uneasy feeling. Said a Tokyo industrialist last week: "I regard the present prosperity as I do my stomach when it is full of rice. I can see it. I can feel it. Even so, I keep on wondering how long it will be before I am hungry again." Some...
Frozen Assets. In Piedimonte Dalife, Italy, after surgeons opened her stomach and removed a bunch of keys, Addolorata Carbonelli, 42, explained that she had swallowed them to prevent her husband from opening the corner cupboard and squandering the family savings hidden there...