Word: stomachly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When, after long years, he wins a remission and returns home. Peter refuses to take him in. Fergus drinks holes in his stomach, himself into a hospital. On his recovery a priest forces Peter to let him come home. Fergus has at last caught on to Peter. He keeps a quarter of a mile distant from him whenever they walk the road to town. One day he catches up with his brother-a bull is kneeling on his crushed chest. The shock of Peter's death awakens the ulcer in Fergus' stomach, its starfish of pain begins...
...army marches on its stomach, so under existing circumstances a radio program can keep marching only on somebody's dollars. Whose...
About the person of Thomas Carlyle there has grown up the convenient myth that for him life was an eternal stomach-ache. This theory was put forward by literary critics to explain the epithetical bombast that he was pleased to call his literary style. This pleasant theory has since been taken up as a vestment of culture by intellectually striving debutantes whose only recollection of "Past and Present" is that it might have been a Vincent Club show of ten years ago. There is something rather dashing and knowing in the statement, "Oh Carlyle-a chronic dyspeptic," particularly if said...
...operating table feels his stomach turn over as a nurse walks toward him with the dreaded cone in her hand. "Ugh!"' says he (gulp). "Ether...
...everyone familiar with the tunes in the show long before people ever get to see it." Changing the subject suddenly he said. "You know there is no excuse for being fat, especially for women being bigger of people after hearing the adage about "your eyes being bigger than you stomach promptly rush into a self-serving lunch room and try to make their stomachs bigger than their eyes." Mr. Allen now began climbing inside a polar explorer's fur suit, remarking or the general depression in the theatre business. "The trouble with this racket is that all the shows...