Word: stomachics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alex Ivanovitch Rykov, President of the Council of Commissars, was reported ill and confined to his bed. For some time he has been in poor health, having, two years ago, spent several months in Germany undergoing treatment for stomach trouble...
...return to Mr. Hecht, however; this gentleman has discovered that men of genius have commonly disregarded the anguished cries of their stomachs. Napoleon, who is an example for almost everything, ate at all hours, nibbled sweets constantly, and finally lost the battle of Waterloo because of a stomach ache. Herbert Spencer, the philosopher, was in the habit of eating a heavy dinner and going immediately to bed--where he regularly suffered from insomnia and indigestion. This, it is believed accounts for his cynical, gloomy philosophy. Similarly, "the bitter passages of Huxley's essays are attributed to dyspepsia, which resulted from...
...better not try that trick on me. That style of fighting is my dish. When he puts that left around my neck to pull me in, I'll slip right around his back and do some pulling myself. Then watch me smash my left into the stomach...
...champion's statement was accompanied by a working diagram, made by pasting up two photographs, which showed him giving Wills the "left into the stomach" exactly as described...
Cutcheon, the first Crimson man to cross the line, took 12th place in strong finish, having passed nearly 20 men in the last mile and a half. Ryan finished 21, Captain Coburn 26, Chapin 28, and Watters, who ran in spite of a sick stomach, crossed the line in position...