Word: stomachics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stomach grew chilly with fear...
...where he makes an attempt at any kind of distinguishing, in preferring Esther Shephard's "Paul Bunyan" to James Stephens', and in protesting against Dreiser's fearful style, are too obvious to argue any great subtlety. Elsewhere he is prone to sit back, fold his hands comfortably over his stomach and say: "Great, absolutely great! Do go on!" by the hour together. He does not like everything else he treats--but almost, and it cannot be possible for any one man to find so many new books that he likes so well in a short three years...
...atrocities. Consider the oyster, said they. First, he (or she) is ripped unkindly from the shell, stuck through the flesh with a fork, dipped in a smarting pepper cocktail, partly mangled by human teeth, squeezed down a narrow canal, smothered to death in the gastric juices of the human stomach. How can civilized sensibilities stand for this, asked the oyster's friends. Could a man swallow a slimy, wiggling baby toad and not feel any reaction in his stomach?* Edward G. Boulenger, Director of the Aquarium at the London Zoo, a stalwart oyster champion, called attention to the following...
...Gluten, N. Y. Divorce ensues. Queen Marie sings "Dat watahmelyon hangin' on de vine." He marries a Swiss called Geezle. He reforms the theatre by undressing the audience. In the last chapter, not without justice, he dies fishing for hake, suggesting posthumously and provocatively that it was stomach hake...
...Stomach Hake" "Even to this day," confesses Funnyman Lardner,* "the first week in March is set aside in Niles [Mich.] as 'Have a Baby Week.'" He came in there like a lion one March "before they had horses and boats and when you wanted to go from one town to another, you had to take a train." Graduates of the Lytton Strachey school of informal biography may suspect Mr. Lardner of shoving fun at their alma mater, the way he takes liberties with prominent names and dates in trying to solve the enigma of himself in an intimate...