Word: stomachly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...close to his stove when there came a knock on the worn brown door of his hut. Opening, he beheld standing before him his Emperor, the Son of Heaven, shivering with a blue-nosed retinue. The Emperor was lost in the mountains. No food had been in the royal stomach for some time. So honored was the mountaineer by the visit, so solicitous was he for his Emperor's health that he set out an unusually large dish of his best seaweed jelly. When the meal was over the humble man, in deference to deity, threw away what...
...wants to dedicate the $800,000 tomb of Warren Gamaliel Harding at Marion, Ohio, he will have to go, cap in hand, to the Harding Memorial Association and humbly beg its permission. The association is through importuning him to participate in a ceremony for which he apparently has no stomach...
...Michigan trapper named St. Martin was shot in the stomach in 1822. The accident proved good fortune to Medicine. For Dr. William Beaumont, young Army surgeon, succeeded in healing the wound, except for a clean hole three inches in diameter. Through that hole Dr. Beaumont was able to study the processes of human digestion for the many years which St. Martin continued to live...
...Navy's submarine force, crew captain at Annapolis in 1877, chief of staff of the Atlantic fleet sent around the world by Roosevelt, pre-War commander of the submarine force of the Atlantic fleet, recently commander of the Navy Yard in Washington; as a result of disorders of the stomach, at the Naval Hospital in Washington...
...rare-book seller. One was a self-portrait, one was of Mrs. Sarah E. Shelton, traditionally Poe's inspiration for "Annabel Lee." The third was of his tragic child-wife, Virginia Clemm, who died in a garret of misery and malnutrition, with a purring cat on her stomach to keep her warm. All three were signed, but Poe who wrote with the careful legible hand of a pre-typewriter newspaper man, had one of the easiest signatures to forge. Careful Bookman Wells took his pictures to the leading Poe authority in the U. S., Dr. Thomas O. Mabbott...