Word: stomachly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kansas City Dan McLaughlin, 75, weary wayfarer from Texas, knocked at the door of the General Hospital, said he had a pain in his stomach. Doctors found he needed food, sent him on to the Helping Hand. There he cut his wrists and throat, was carried back to the hospital. Said he to the doctors: "You didn't want me yesterday. Now maybe you'll take me this way. I've no job, no folks? nobody left. Why should I care...
...Dictator Stalin, on reaching Moscow, had studied Russia's vital statistics, deciding at a glance that the Soviet Union faces a food shortage this winter which will bring back memories of her dread Famine Year, 1921. Correspondents, soon to feel the pinch, filled their despatches last week with stomach-crisis facts...
...will leave immediately for Hot Springs, Arkansas," said Citizen Ortiz Rubio. "There I will undergo treatment for an illness of a. delicate nature." Cut in his secretary: "Acute stomach trouble...
That was more than the Miami Herald could stomach. The offending paragraphs were deleted before the Herald printed the colyum. From the next day's offering the Herald lopped off seven paragraphs dealing with California and paradise. On the following day Colyumist Brisbane told how economically one can live in California. Miami readers were not to suffer that. The Herald tossed the whole col-yum aside, dug up and printed instead some two-weeks-old Brisbanalities about naval armaments, the death of Santos-Dumont, etc., etc. Fortnight ago Westbrook Pegler, eloquent sports colyumist of the Chicago Tribune...
...musicomedy sketch, a torch singer, several other singers, three masters of ceremonies (one male, one female, one indeterminate), a Florodora act, etc., etc. Best act by far is a burlesque sketch in which Mae Dix, onetime Minsky burlesque girl, becomes drunk, disrobes, does strange things with her famed indiarubberlike stomach. Dorothy MacDonald also disrobes, more teasingly. At the beginning of the burlesque sketch, members of the claque run up & down the aisles selling "Feelthy pictures, feelthy pictures, Martha Washington candies...