Word: stomachly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...distorting mirror," hopes radio will be a better international language. Everybody knows Einstein is a Zionist, but perhaps not so many realize he is a militant pacifist. Of Fire-eater Hitler he takes a long and contemptuous view: "Hitler is living-or shall I say sitting?-on the empty stomach of Germany. As soon as economic conditions improve, Hitler will sink into oblivion. He dramatizes impossible extremes in an amateurish manner...
Many a U. S. reader found to his surprise that Stephen Vincent Benét's John Brown's Body was readable and even thrilling, though a poem and a long one. If you are one who cannot stomach left-wing lyrics or metrically muted cries of despair, you may well find one or both of these narrative poems as agreeable a surprise as John Brown's Body...
Then one night Julius Abbey was found dead after one of his stag parties. When an autopsy disclosed arsenic in his stomach everyone was sure Melton had murdered him. Even her sophisticates thought she was guilty, but they were loyal, only admired her the more. Things looked black for Melton at the trial, but at the last minute a dying man's false affidavit acquitted her. The sophisticates were overjoyed, had a higher old intellectual time than ever. Three of them wanted to marry her and take a chance on being her next victim. Of Melton's three...
...saying: "I am satisfied, even optimistic. But I must hurry. If I don't get home before sundown, I must fast tonight"-for it is Mr. Gandhi's rule to eat but once a day, never at night, and he had taken Lord Irwin on an empty stomach. Twice more, last week, the "friends" met. Once the Viceroy sent around to Mr. Gandhi's lodgings the most tempting gift His Excellency could imagine: a cool jug of the best goat's milk and a bunch of the most luscious hothouse grapes. Mr. Gandhi began sending telegrams...
Comrade Menzhinsky is believed to suffer from ulcers of the stomach, and his complexion is sallow. He prefers to work, as so many Soviet officials do, very late at night, and his appointment calendar is always full of things for him to do at three and four a. m. His temper is easily aroused, but he appears to take sincere pride in his work. His job, as he conceives it, is to "Make the World Safe for the World Proletariat." His attitude is as universal as that of the Pope. Wherever upon the face of the earth Capitalism...