Word: stomachly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Near Stooping Oak, Tenn., on the Cumberland Plateau, newshawks last month found a tall, gaunt, 45-year-old named Jackson Whitlow who was daily growing gaunter from a fast to which he said the Lord had called him early in March. His face blotched from his "stomach trouble," Jackson Whitlow daily hoed the vegetable patch behind his cabin, seemed to have no plans beyond continuing his fast, accepting at its end some earthly bounty which the Lord had in mind...
...Greco, stood them off, earned a living doing posters and sketches of furniture. He first won general notice in 1927 with Nu an trois-mâts (nude and three-masted ship). Of another picture, Léda, a critic said that it delivered the kick in the stomach characteristic of genius. De Botton's portrait of Author Jules Remains (Men of Good Will), his onetime philosophy teacher, was bought by the French Government...
...from very early in their practice to gain control of the anal sphincters. The first effort in this direction consists of repeated contraction and relaxation of the sphincters for several minutes in succession." An adept can, by muscular force alone, ventilate and irrigate his colon, or rinse out his stomach. A photograph of one of Swami Kuvalayananda's disciples in the latter act is included in Dr. Behanan's well-illustrated text...
Died. Major Ulciseno Franco Granero, 56, chief of Cuban President Federico Laredo Bru's aides; of cancer of the stomach; in Havana. He was one of the army sergeants who revolted in 1933 against Provisional President Carlos Manuel de Cespedes under his close friend Colonel Fulgencio Batista, who made him chief of the Cuban national police...
...propose that Mr. Schwab be kicked upstairs into an "honorary chairmanship" with a $25,000 annual pension. Mr. Schwab, said Stockholder Gilbert, had outlived his usefulness. Loudly seconded was this thought by Leopold B. Coshland, a stockholder who once complained that Bethlehem was closer to Mr. Schwab's stomach than his heart...