Word: stomached
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Herbert Clark Hoover, hands in pockets, stomach to the fore, obviously loving his chance, warned the coming generation that the New Deal had mortgaged it. "It was Republicans," the nation's one living ex-President reiterated, who wrought reforms before Franklin Roosevelt, and would again. The "oxygen of opposition," he said, would save the people from their "rendezvous with debt...
...time to their store clothes, Conductor Koussevitzky and his men gave Manhattanites their first taste of Serge Prokofieff's children's suite, Peter and the Wolf, made them whoop and giggle to hear Peter's duck (the oboe) quack mournfully inside the hungry wolf's stomach (three French horns). With the evening topped off with waltzes by Johann Strauss, Sibelius and Ravel, concertgoers felt that Henry Lee Higginson's band had kicked up its heels about as much as any self-respecting 58-year-old symphony had a right...
...Picasso finally left the Bateau lavoir and the straight bohemian life. He now had money stowed away in his "strong box"-a large wallet kept in an inner pocket and fastened with a safety pin. He also had liver and stomach trouble that has persisted ever since. Moving into i studio apartment on the Boulevard de Clichy with at last some actual comfort, he worked furiously, with less gaiety, with a beginning of the bitter, abstracted air which characterized him later. In 1912 he moved to Montparnasse. In 1914, saddened by the departure of most of his riends...
Those who study world diplomacy know that if war comes in the next few years, it will be the result of some further aggressive act on the part of the totalitarian powers which an aroused set of democracies will refuse to stomach. The democracies will not themselves precipitate the crisis. But they will, if they continue their half-hearted resistance, encourage their potential enemies to drive on to the end of the rope. Conversely, a truly positive stand, coupled with an honest recognition of the necessity of peaceful change, can-or at least offers the best chance to -avert...
...infirmary and not a large and modern hospital equipped for the treatment of all sorts of rare sicknesses. Although I have no statistics at hand, I am sure that by far the largest number of students entering Stillman are suffering from minor sicknesses such as colds, bronchitis, grippe, stomach disorders and lack of rest and sleep, which can be easily and well cured in this Infirmary. Why is it not sufficient to treat more serious cases in one of the big hospitals, of which Boston possesses a considerable number? These hospitals always will be superior in regard to equipment...