Word: vomitive
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...What depth of shame do we lie in," muses the hero of The Dead Seagull, "when we sink back on the plush cushions of our disgust and sigh? It is the dog going back to his vomit, attracted to it by a simple miracle...
...When the monkeys die, the men will vomit black"-and die themselves, of yellow fever. Then came Gorgas and Goethals, and for 40 years the country seemed free of the scourge. Doctors believed that they had banished it entirely from the Americas; they scoffed at the Indian legend about the monkeys...
...direction of Paul Crabtree seemed to be striving for adolescent stage humor, such as having the men roll up their trousers to reveal garters, and allowing excessive mugging by the dancers, even to the extent of permitting one to feign illness and rush into the wings to vomit. Oh yes--there is a small girl in the show who re-unites the lovers and who looks very, very much like Margaret O'Brien...
...hung a long time, so you can smell the bouquet. Very enjoyable to the educated nose. But if you offer it to the workers they will throw the rotten duck out, unless they throw it in your face. Now . . . the kitchen of the high bourgeoisie will make the proletarian vomit, and the paintings of the high bourgeoisie will make him vomit too-though this is nothing against the duck, or against modern...
What are the effective new methods? The plague is spread in a double bacillus play from rats to fleas to man; men usually catch it not from flea bites, but from rubbing flea vomit or feces into the skin. Science tries to kill the rats by new, powerful poisons like "1080," the fleas with DDT (see above), attack the disease itself with modern medicines and vaccines...