Word: stomachics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Auditors opined that the adjective "good" has not previously been coupled with "German" by a Premier of France since a good while before the War. Auditor Winston Spencer Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer, was reported to have "listened with his hands folded over his stomach . . . smiling approvingly...
Such was the appalling measure which M. Briand, called for the eighth time to be Premier of France, deemed inescapable. The last Herriot Cabinet and two Painlevé Cabinets had fallen because those two leaders had been unable to make the Chamber stomach less bitter pills than that now offered it. All France gave ear, and crowds of fashionable Parisians swarmed in the gallery of the Chamber as M. Briand mounted the tribune...
...left the boy at the water's edge with the remark, "Dere is plenty of bananas and yams and things in B'bayados, also fowls." So Young Jehu Sennacherib Dyle was launched upon the world. He grew up helter skelter, but at last an empty stomach induced him to try to make a living. So he enlisted as butler in the family of a puisne judge. There he learned to put on style, and as the gayest and sassiest man on the island he became a wooer of the local belle, Jezebel Pettyfer. At this flowing tide...
...Frank Sullivan has reported to the New York World a Munchausen-like anecdote concerning an Egyptian who conjures with his stomach. The man in question, Mr. Hadji All, has so far limited his performances to select audiences examining him and the wonder stomach through the medium of an X-ray machine, but the time cannot be long before he appears on the stage...
...Frank Sullivan says in conclusion: "After Mr. Ali's performance, one does not hesitate to say that the stomach has definitely arrived in art. It is true, of course, that Miss Gilda Gray and Dr. William J. Burr, the noted stomach specialist, have revealed the stomach to us in its true light, but Hadji Ali places it before us in a whimsical, lovable aspect hitherto unknown. And he makes it instructive as well as entertaining...