Word: stomached
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prince Nicholas, weak-chinned younger son of Dowager Queen Marie, as a? "bully, scandal monger and speed-fiend," but it will cost one just four months in jail. Some weeks ago Speed-Fiend Nicholas crashed into a taxicab and in pettish rage" kicked the chauffeur severely under the stomach so that the unfortunate man had to be rushed to the city hospital. One Mircea Damian wrote to the local newspapers in protest, not only calling Prince Nicholas bully, scandal monger and speed-fiend, but adding...
...Digestive Discomfort." Physicians of Baltimore's famed Johns Hopkins Hospital thumped and scrutinized the President-Elect, last week, paying particular attention to his stomach. Señora Rubio was inspected by other doctors. The rest of the President-Elect's party slept in 14 rooms at the Hotel Belvedere. In Mexico the public had been led to suppose that something fairly serious is the matter with the stomach of the man they have elected President. But Dr. Charles R. Sutrian of Johns Hopkins curtly dispelled this illusion. "Examination shows a certain amount of digestive discomfort," said...
...first he tried to subsist for 47 days on sea water, two sips a day, which he stole down the mountain to get. "It contains minerals," he explained. But his stomach had troubled him so he changed to fresh water, carrying heavy stones for penance on a thong about his neck. Then he had hanged himself by a thong under his armpits, but the thong broke and he fractured his ankle. Then he buried himself to the waist in earth. Faint though he was, God still would not come. That taught him humility...
...ether anesthesia would make susceptible to pneumonia, surgeons prefer local anesthesia. The patient can be propped up in bed the day after his operation, sit in a chair after a week, be well in three weeks. Dangers against which the convalescent must guard include pneumonia, hiccoughing, gas on the stomach. Epsom salt is poison to the convalescent...
...touched gloves again with Primo Carnera, the Brobdingnagian Italian carpenter who recently beat him on a foul (TIME, Dec. 9). In the clinches Stribling strained and sweated against a body 85 Ibs. heavier, 12½ in. taller than his own. In the sixth round he hit Carnera in the stomach. Carnera's vast legs buckled. He knelt a minute, then rose. In the seventh round little Stribling's punches angered Carnera. A strange expression contorted his wide face. The bell was ringing as he rushed at Stribling, swung at him three or four times, then...