Word: stomachly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...haired, professional Violinist Adolf Busch bringing to the U. S. for the first time his famed Busch Quartet and his young protege Pianist Rudolf Serkin. Day before they landed came news that Busch, like many another German musician, had found Adolf Hitler's government more than he could stomach. Busch had been engaged for Brahms centennial concerts in Hamburg this month, but Pianist Serkin, a Jew, was not to be allowed to play. Violinist Busch withdrew...
...week, as Argentine's autumn got under way, Sunday crowds saw many a fine futbol game. At one a River Plate player assaulted and broke the jaw of an opponent. He was held for trial on $5,000 bail. Another was arrested for kicking his opponent in the stomach. Exhilarated, the crowd began to throw rocks at the players. Some took out revolvers and fired furiously into the melee on the field. After one game last week futbol fans set fire to the stadium...
...merry in the light of the noon sun. As his feet touch the floor, and his knees buckle under him, his joyous expression contracts to a snarl. He wabbles to the fixtures, where he pours himself a goblet of cold water. It runs down his throat, and into his stomach, every inch of its course distinctly felt. A sensation of feeble exhilaration comes over him, and he puts on his raiment, slowly, with hands that will not quite close. The prospect of a meal seems strangely boring; slush fills the street, and the passers-by are dressed in slightly spotted...
...this point Cinematographer Bonnett doubled up with a severe pain in his stomach. What he should have done, as his companion observer did do, was to pop his head out of the cockpit and take still photographs of the icy summit. Instead he was barely able to stop the leak in his oxygen pipe with his handkerchief as both planes slid down the long descent from their objective. It was later found that neither cinema machine had functioned continuously throughout the flight. Only other mishap reported, when the two planes, having traveled 320 mi., alighted at Purnea exactly three hours...
Died. Countess Tokiko Yamamoto, 73, Japanese "Cinderella"; of a stomach ulcer; in Tokyo. Third daughter of a poor fisherman, she was sold at 14 to the proprietor of a house in Tokyo's Yoshiwara (prostitution) district. A young naval officer fell in love with, kidnapped, married her. He became Admiral Count Gombei Yamamoto, twice (in 1913 & 1923) Premier of Japan...