Word: stomach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Either accept my conditions or burn the score. I will prepare the fire, and I will personally put Falstaff and his stomach on the flames." So wrote fiery-tempered, 79-year-old Composer Giuseppe Verdi in a letter to his publisher in 1892. But Verdi, who had already received one of the handsomest premiums ever offered a composer, was persuaded not to burn Falstaff. Along with the originals of Verdi's 26 other operas, it was long stored in Milan in a plain brownstone office building at No. 2 Via Berchet, not far from La Scala. The opera house...
...reader feels strongly about car design, can stomach some doggedly doggy sex interest and the book's odd dog conversation (a kind of Madison Avenue jive), he may be able to grin, once or twice, wider than his own canines. But as he wags his little tale, Satirist Wallop seems to be unaware that his bark is a great deal worse than his bite...
Lady L., by Remain Gary. An urbane ribbing of those who swallow ideals but cannot stomach people...
Lady I., by Romain Gary. An urbane ribbing of those who swallow ideals but cannot stomach people...
Lady L., by Romain Gary. An urbane ribbing of those who swallow ideals but cannot stomach people...