Word: stomachful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strawberry shortcake in New York." But when he went to Billy's last week, Correspondent Denny could only gnaw a pig's knuckle and go home. Said he: "After I got where I could get decent food I ate too much and got fierce pains in my stomach. The doctors tell me my stomach shrank while I was in jail and I tried to stretch it too fast...
...darling who takes Adwoman Russell's letters is dog-jawed, indestructible Fred MacMurray, an unsuccessful painter with a fallen stomach. His principal duties are to charm the suspicious wives of his boss's million-dollar accounts and to mind his manners around the brunette executive...
Cancer of the Stomach, which accounts for more than 30% of all cancers in the U.S., and kills at least 150 middle-aged persons every day. Almost half of these victims could be saved by surgery, says Dr. Cramer, if they saw a doctor as soon as their stomachs kicked up. For there are three easily detectable "pre-cancerous" states: 1) stomach ulcers, which sometimes become malignant; 2) polyps (small growths) in the lining of the stomach; 3) chronic gastritis (inflammation of the lining of the stomach, with symptoms of burning nausea, vomiting, etc.). Persons whose relatives have gastric cancer...
...Britain, who are constantly exposed to the carcinogenic mineral oil used in lubricating the spindles, may develop "mule spinners' cancer" of the scrotum. Obviously, said Dr. Cramer, occupational cancer is a "preventable disease." Social Cancers, an expression coined by Dr. Cramer, which include cancers of the esophagus, stomach, upper digestive tract -all especially common in the lower economic groups. One reason for this prevalence, said the doctor, is the "banal" fact of widespread tooth decay, or "in plain English, a dirty mouth." Improper chewing and constant swallowing of infected matter produce dangerous physical and chemical irritation of the digestive...
...Mantegna and other predecessors of Raphael. In art they left nothing rugged, but they did succeed in rolling up a mighty snowball of Raphael-belittlement. Even Academicians like John Ruskin agreed that Raphael's Madonnas bore no resemblance to the Jewish Mary. Manet said crudely: "Raphael turns my stomach." In the 20th Century Stark Young, standing in the solemn little chapel in the Dresden Museum before Raphael's Sistine Madonna, could say only: ". . . Fundamentally dull. ... In color it is stupid. . . . The cherubim faces are downright ugly, the infant Jesus equally...