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...carpet. "I have known a few tobacco chewers in whom this habit had reached such a degree of concentrated virulence," he wrote, "that they even compelled persons of delicate feelings, especially females, to leave the room, or the pew, and retire in haste to avoid sickness of stomach...
...agent in the area, yet could also expand the three known facts about the life of Omar Khayyam into 316 pages of entertaining reading and turn out movie scripts (The Golden Horde, The Crusades) that delighted the heart of Cecil B. DeMille; of stomach cancer; in the Mayo Brothers' Clinic in Rochester, Minn...
Psychiatric Training. Almost to a man, the doctors say that they left Cuba because they could not stomach the loss of freedom under Castro-for themselves as physicians, for their children as future citizens. Castro's policies have made a mockery of medicine. To head one reputable clinic, the regime nominated a janitor. In a major clinic it installed the barber as administrator, with the switchboard operator as his assistant. Says one displaced doctor: "Practice is terrible...
...Stomach queasy? Dial a non-existent exchange and let New England Telephone soothe you. We recommend 492; you needn't bother with the next four numbers...
...echoes from the past. The shift in tone is perhaps explained by the fact that the novel is autobiographical in part, but De Vries makes no apology. The dramatic departure from the comic is one of the grotesqueries which, De Vries says, "are too strong for the delicate stomach of Art but in which reality abounds, as though life itself enjoys laughing down the aesthetic proprieties...