Word: stomachful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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conversion. Not to be confused with the religious term. A symptom of mental sickness: an unfulfilled, unconscious desire causes a bodily ache, pain, etc. (e.g., an upset stomach because of a disappointment in love...
Since Charles Morton depends on his stomach for his judgment, then it is through the stomach that we would like to take issue...
...forces. In return, French Vice Admiral Robert Jaujard would be head man of the combined Western fleets. French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny would command the land forces. This was a tremendous portent for the success of Western Union; if the Royal British Navy could stomach a French admiral as its theoretical commander, almost anything was possible...
Looking back, it makes sense that Gibbs liked the book. Every now and then he goes off on a book or a play, liking it when nobody else can stomach a word of it, and it is usually a one-joke book or a one-joke play. A few years ago he liked a musical called "Park Avenue" which flopped. It was one long, dull joke about intermarriage and divorce in the Park Avenue set. But Gibbs raved about it, for what must be curious reasons. Whatever they are, those are the same reasons why he raved about "The Loved...
...years later, back at Williams and still eager to be a Greek, Morton had his "heart's desire" fulfilled. But his stomach's desire was not. Morton endured fraternity food as long as he could, then transferred his patronage to the Williams Inn. By this week, 29 years later, Morton had decided that his stomach had been a sounder guide than his heart. In the Atlantic Monthly, of which he is now associate editor, Morton paid his respects to Fraternity Row in an essay that the Greeks would probably have several words...