Word: stomachics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...railway construction, or shipment to Australia, where good wholesome work is free and plentiful, makes a shadow in their dreams. But so far the bug-a-boo has done nothing more than to cry, "Boo!" and the Englishman of leisure is still able to sleep sweetly on a full stomach and say to himself, "Oh England, 'my merry England, my most kindly nurse...
...stand, a student, starving while attending school. Hunger forced me to pick from garbage cans hends of herring. Not satisfied, I ate hay which I stole from a cow. This produced terrible head aches. Next I chewed small pieces of paper to satiate the gnawing pangs of Hunger. My stomach and teeth ached, and the muscles of my jaw grew tired...
...contains pieces of animals and natural objects regarded as representing the powers of the universe, which must be brought to bear on the problem. A porcupine quill is included for its penetrating quality; a bit of leopard's hide because the leopard represents strength; a stone from the stomach of a crocodile because of the local legend that a crocodile which has swallowed nine stones cannot be harmed; a piece of a hawk, which gathers everything in its talons, symbolizing the bringing to bear of all these forces upon the problem...
...little saint that is made of rye and harley and potatoes and trickles down your throat and into your stomach and so on," was the answer that little Peter Mickiewinski received from his friend great Jean Grigorovitch...
...help him through the door. And the long night was short and the cold night was warm to Lenin and Trotzky, because of the devilish little saint made of rye and barley and potatoes, the saintly little devil that trickles down one's throat and into one's stomach 'and so on,--Vodka...