Word: stomachful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From a $17-a-month room across the street from police headquarters, Arthur Fellig keeps a peeping eye on crowded, raucous, uncaring Manhattan. An untidy little man with a bulging stomach and moist brown eyes, he sleeps in his clothes, spends most of his nights cruising about, photographing the city. Newspaper readers see his pictures over the credit line Weegee (phonetic for Ouija-because he plays hunches on news and pictures...
...Philadelphia, Morris Lenghal, 23, discharged from the Navy with a stomach wound, started a dry-cleaning business with a $1,100 Government loan and $700 of his own. For three years he and his wife, Doris, who was nursing at the naval hospital in Seattle when they met will pay the Government $34 a month. Said Lenghal, who learned dry cleaning before the war: "They won't lose any money...
...hopeless Phillies), crashed from first to fifth place in eight days. The astounding Brooklyn Dodgers, who had once been doped as pitiful or worse, had taken a three-and-a-half-game lead-with the Cardinals, Pirates, Giants, Cubs and Braves in a bunch behind. Ott's nervous stomach, which put him to bed for two weeks when his 1943 Giants slumped into last place, began acting up. He cajoled, threatened, finally fined players. The only thing still left untried: hiring a hackman to drive a wagonload of barrels (a traditional omen of good luck) around the Polo Grounds...
Slight, sandy-haired Lieut. Steinberg, now in Washington awaiting a new Navy assignment, cannot disclose what his Navy job has been-except that in India and Africa "I was doing the usual waiting for transportation, having stomach trouble and sitting under...
Moments as strange as this, in which the proceedings are questionable, make the flesh crawl; while the picture's flat actualities, in which truth appears unquestionable, make the head swim and the stomach turn...