Word: stomachly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pantophagous is the shark. Its stomach is the ocean's garbage can. Its digestive fluid, dropped on a man's hand, will take off the skin. In over 30 years of shark-hunting off Hawaii, the U. S., Africa, the West Indies, Australia, Captain William E. ("Sharky Bill") Young has learned not to be surprised at anything he finds when he rips open a shark's belly. He has discovered tin cans, horses' hoofs, a small pig, bottles, parts of other sharks. Once, in a shark caught off Big Pine Key, Fla., he found...
...Theo. But the doctor, an art connoisseur, enraged van Gogh by his cavalier treatment of artists whom his patient revered. One day he terrified the doctor by appearing with a revolver in his hand. But van Gogh only laughed awkwardly, went to his room and shot himself in the stomach. As he lay dying he said to Theo: "Did you ever know such an awkward and helpless fellow as me? I can't even manage to use a revolver properly...
...little old (67) lady, has sung one charming song with the pinched remains of a fine alto voice, and then died. Composer Jerome Kern has supplied half .a dozen excellent tunes. Appearing as a customer of Aunt Minnie, Lyda Roberti has got her usual comedy out of wriggling her stomach to show that she is a dangerous woman and waving her arms to show that she is a tomboy. Finally novelty appears...
...mule first found her way into the Army heart through its stomach; she it was who always brought rations up from the rear and her apearance was eagerly awaited by the men. In the Spanish war, mules gained much in prestige by their plucky work dragging light field guns through Philippine hill country. It was a great day for simple, hard working "Maud" when she was rewarded with the title of "Army Mule," and was paraded forth in a new blanket to face the Navy Goat, and equally sad, the first defeat and the loss to the enemy of blanket...
Although he maintains wages higher than, hours as short as those stipulated under the code, Henry Ford cannot stomach his workers' unionization. This antipathy is chiefly what has kept him from flying the Blue Eagle. A strike at his Edgewater, N. J. plant, whose workers demand the right of collective bargaining guaranteed by the Recovery Act, is now in the hands of the National Labor Board...