Word: stomachful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Monty Woolley, who has played The Man Who Came to Dinner on stage, on screen & off for the last eight years, finally had to put in for stomach repairs. In Albany, he had a "successful" operation, was soon feeling well enough to go right back into character. When an interne accidentally entered his room, Woolley glared and blared: "Have we been introduced?" Interne: "No." Woolley (beard bristling): "Then...
Died. Yomejiro Noguchi,* 72, Japanese poet and professor who in his younger days came to the U.S., married a Bryn Mawr girl (their son: Manhattan Sculptor Isamu Noguchi), then went back to Tokyo, where he discarded his Western wife and ideas, became a great booster of Japanese imperialism; of stomach cancer; in Toyooka, Japan...
...fancy future in radio advertising. He knows, to perfection, how to walk into a cushy job by appearing to walk out on it; how to hook a gentlewoman (Miss Kerr) for a soap testimonial; how to turn out a commercial ("Love That Soap") that turns even his own stomach; how to finesse a sharp deal and how to make it stick by the application of blackmail. Above all, he knows how to please his agency's most fearsome client, Mr. Evan Llewellyn Evans (Sidney Greenstreet). Vic seems predestined for radio's ulcer brackets. But Miss Kerr...
...Alice wore a neat suit and a plain dark felt hat. As she walked down a park path, a hand grabbed her and a male voice said: "Come in here, baby." Alice jerked away, whirled when the man threatened to shoot and dropped him with a slug in the stomach. The ambulance people arrived to gather up No. 7, and Alice walked calmly off to the station to make out her report. Then she went back to her beat...
...operation takes an expert. Unless all the nerve fibers are cut, it does not work. And surgeons have begun to argue fiercely about whether it is better to cut the nerves above or below the diaphragm. Another complication: cutting the vagus reduces the stomach's ability to eliminate food, and further operations may be necessary to remedy that defect...