Word: stomached
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nevertheless, Chauncey Mitchell Depew's was a full life, based on an alert brain, a well-guarded stomach and a useful diaphragm. The diaphragm's usefulness was revealed to him by a schoolmaster at Peekskill, N. Y., his birthplace. The other schoolboys recited their orations. Chauncey would offer original compositions. His master began an oratorical training which was completed at Yale and on the political stump. He declaimed his way into the New York Assembly. On the advice of Commodore Vanderbilt, whose railroads he was to help run for the rest of his life, he renounced politics...
...survive the completely hopeless first act or arrive happily late. "Behold the Bridegroom" is a good evening's investment. The rough points are hard to stomach, but there may quite possibly be the fundamentals of a great play in the rest...
...Risko was tough, they said, but Sharkey was tough and fancy. When the bell rang, Risko made Sharkey miss a left, landed a left to the jaw. All through the fight he hooked to the chin and made Sharkey jerk his legs up when he hit him" in the stomach. When the decision went to Risko, Sharkey struck a pose, stared disdainfully at the top balcony. "Yaah," yelled the holder of a $3 balcony seat, "you look like a nickel's worth of holy mackerel." "Honest John" Risko, shifty, awkward, hard-to-hurt, who has beaten Paulino, Delaney...
...could be observed that layer of sand had been lying there a thousand years. In this impermeable mass about two feet beneath the surface, we uncovered a frog [sic, sic] which was absolutely entombed there. Fortunately it escaped spades and pickaxes and was lifted out alive. Its stomach was full of water which it ejected and then hopped away...
...Reporter Moses Lamson was set upon Negro Crowe's scent. He used skullduggery and pipelines of sly information-police, stool pigeons, private detectives, Pullman porters, servants. . . . Shrewdly he asked the best catch-scamps -doctors-to watch for the villain. The quarry has cancer of the stomach (TIME, Feb. 20, MEDICINE...