Word: stomached
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Zangwill really feels this way, it will do no harm to his audience to hear stnoera criticism rather than polite nothings. And after all Mr. Zangwill, like Shaw's Caesar, may have been speaking on an empty stomach. A good dinner might change America's whole aspect...
...left him a good bit, set out to go into society, with his love Lelia. The dashing lady was "a fair rose of Briton, rather false hair like we see advertised, her somewhat perfect nose would scarce be noticed to have been turned up, owing to sleeping on her stomach". At the same time "she was just a lowborn girl, but none could beat her at playing the piano". And Mr. Withersq is no piker. He crashes right into a Bohemian festival the first night out, visits the exotic "Mauve Loft" the next morning and by evening has been officially...
...Lesson in Love. Captain Briquette (William Faversham) was a candid Frenchman. He believed in saying "stomach" right out in company and disapproved of Beatrice Audley (Emily Stevens) when she gave a former friend the cold English eye just because the friend had eloped to Kamchatka with a bachelor lover. So he decided to teach Beatrice a lesson in love-and proved such an interesting teacher that Beatrice was all ready to depart with him unmarried, when he finally produced a license, remarking that he had really meant to marry her all the while and had just wanted to improve...
...average New Yorker is a European and the average European has a tough stomach. It was perhaps on this account that New Yorkers were able to assimilate " combined " newspapers for ten days during a pressmen's strike (TiMB, Oct. 1). By the tenth day the strike had dissipated its force and New York newspapers resumed their separate identities...
...Michigan, Chase S. Osborn, ex-Governor, believes that " Mr. Couzens [Senator] is an honest man," but "speaks from the fullness of his stomach and from the viewpoint of the Florida houseboat crowd." Accordingly Mr. Osborn announced that he would not refuse to be a candidate for the Republican Senatorial nomination next year in opposition to Senator Couzens if the prohibition forces felt it imperative that he fight the Senator's " 5% beer" platform ( TIME, July 16). Mr. Osborn added: " I could not refuse the nomination for the office of dog catcher if there was a real need...