Word: stomachful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When "typhoid" took Lyda's fourth husband, Edward F. Meyer, insurance companies grew suspicious. She had been named beneficiary in all her husbands' policies. An examination of Meyer's stomach revealed a quantity of arsenic which, officials said, had probably been extracted from flypaper. Police went looking for Lyda. She had left town...
...over occupied Europe the food situation was growing worse. Nazi plundering to keep the Wehrmacht fed was felt more than ever by the occupied countries. As the Wehrmacht marches on its stomach, so does anti-Nazi terrorism. It takes food to make the first fight, hunger to make the latter...
...precise nature of the effective ingredient in penicillin is not known. It is difficult to give by mouth, because it is digested by stomach juices. So far, in cases of blood poisoning, the doctors have dripped as much as 36 oz. a day of very dilute solution into their patients' veins. Unlike the sulfa drugs, the mold is bland, has no poisonous effects. Said the workers: "An improvement in the spirits and appetite of the patient during treatment was remarked on in all the cases...
...Rudolf Schindler, inventor of the flexible gastroscope (a sort of periscope which enables doctors to see the inside of the stomach), trained a Provident doctor in his work. Thus Provident is one of the few U.S. hospitals to have one of these important gastroscopic clinics...
...long, specially made cigar crunched in his teeth. He wore his Trinity House uniform of dark blue, the effect of its eight brass buttons slightly marred by the grey marks where he had hastily brushed away the little mound of silver grey cigar ash that collects on his stomach as he sits slouched down.* His zippered ankle-high shoes were half unzipped. He handed a letter to Franklin Roosevelt, said: "I have the honor, Mr. President, to hand you a letter from His Majesty the King...