Word: stomachly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York's Sing Sing Prison, waiting to die this week for murdering her lover's wife, Mrs. Mary Frances Creighton was so overcome by fear that she could keep neither food nor water in her stomach, suffered paralysis from the waist down...
...Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, appointed him Ambassador to the U. S. in place of Augusto Rosso. Last week President Roosevelt returned the compliment, announced that his good friend Undersecretary of State William Phillips would succeed Breckinridge Long as U. S. Ambassador to Italy next autumn. A chronic case of stomach ulcers had forced Ambassador Long to resign...
June 23 the birthday of His Majesty occasioned feature articles throughout the world, the conservative New York Herald Tribune dubbing him "The Streamlined King" after alluding respectfully to His Majesty's "flat stomach" and weight...
...fact that caution was indeed the mainspring of wisdom last week for Great Britain, the Prime Minister added with further candor that so far as he could see the people of Italy and the people of Germany are now just about the only ones in Europe who do have stomach to fight. "I feel convinced," added Mr. Baldwin, "that in many countries, including our own and France, there is such loathing of war . . . that I sometimes wonder if they would march [i.e., fight] on any other occasion than if they believed their own frontiers were in danger...
...Captain Eden, "that Sanctions did not realize the purpose for which they were imposed. The Italian military campaign succeeded. . . . If this means admitting failure, this is one instance in which it has got to be faced." The Foreign Secretary concluded that so far as he knew there was no stomach among the Great Powers to go to war to "enforce in Ethiopia a peace of which the League could rightly approve," so they simply would not try. Captain Eden said that there was nothing to apologize for and nothing to retract...