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Word: vomited (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lazare which somebody had constructed on the lot. And it ended the creative impasse between Scripters Ludlow Mumni and Maurice Cassard. Mumm was a solemn, devout Manhattan liberal who was driven to picket lines by a chauffeur. Cassard was a rumpled, realistic Frenchman, who admitted to an impulse to vomit into the hats of "Stork Club Communists." They were working together on the script of Moses Fable's preposterous musical, Will You Marry Me?-and getting nowhere. One day, driving in the San Fernando Valley, Cassard ran over and hospitalized Dirty Eddie. Cassard had found his ideal teammate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Star Is Farrowed | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

...Senate one bitter speech followed another. Texas' white-maned Senator Tom Connally shook a trembling finger at Michigan's Republican Senator Homer Ferguson, accusing him of pouring out "the vomit of his hate, prejudice, rancor and ambition." While Bob Taft pleaded with him, Idaho's banjo-playing Democratic Senator Glen Taylor cunningly piled books on his desk as though he was preparing to make a long harangue. He sent a note to the press gallery: "Don't worry . . . I'm not going to make a speech. I just want to drive Taft to distraction-senatorial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: First Seven Months | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

...Reason frequently attempts to shock the reader with pointless vulgarity (". . .a faint, sour reek of vomit came from her delicate mouth. Mathieu inhaled it ecstatically"). Existentialists may deny that such scenes are introduced for sensationalism's sake, but they have not explained why it is necessary to expound their doctrine solely from a worm's eye view of life. What one of the characters calls "the freemasonry of the urinal" will seem, to many readers, an accurate description of Sartre's own books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Existentialist Purgatory | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

...anti-Christ will not be so called, otherwise he would have no followers. He will wear no red tights, nor vomit sulphur, nor carry a spear nor wave an arrowed tail as the Mephistopheles in Faust. This masquerade has helped the devil convince men that he does not exist, for he knows that he is never so strong as when men believe that he does not exist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Signs of the Times | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

...crawling position, and took turns burning her back with lighted cigarets-not deep, just enough to leave blisters. Meanwhile another girl was throwing an egg at her face. She started to cry and they kicked her. Then they spun her around until she was dizzy and started to vomit, but the girls grabbed hold of her nose and mouth so she couldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Secret Ceremony | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

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