Word: vomitive
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...strings, blew bubble gum, enjoyed himself no end. Last time he had spoken out loud on the stage was 25 years ago in a Texas tank town. The long silence had not improved his manners. Said he, stealing a line from the play's catty hero: "I may vomit...
...year sputtered out, and men in Great Britain made their reckonings and asked their questions: What will happen in 1941? Will invasion vomit suddenly from those scores of angry, bruised sea-mouths from Norway to Normandy? Will the shorthand of Balkan rumor eventually spell out a third front to the war? Will a dozen ex-countries have a future? Will the secrets and mysteries of Japan (see p. 28) be resolved? Above all, will the child of the West plunge his hand into the fire...
...concerned, TIME can go to hell. In the words of the hero of The Man Who Came to Dinner, "I am about to vomit" every time I read your super-emotionalism, your putrid cliches. . . . I do not consider any money being so wasted as my subscription to your literary and intellectual enigma...
...sentimental literary properties but as if they had a dignified, unobstreperous standing in human existence. With a constant and expert attentiveness to exactitudes of speech, gesture, action, he writes of violence (a negress cutting a white man's throat), horror (a father incapable of restraining his vomit over the 19-day corpse of his son), brutality (a man's foot pinning a fighting woman to the earth by her pregnant belly), without any slackening into the merely melodramatic. He achieves all this in a dulled, plainfeatured, transparent prose. Lightwood has the unimpeachable honesty, goodness, flatness, of a mouthful...
Contrary to first expectations, sulfapyridine cannot always be used without serums, for some patients vomit the drug immediately and cannot absorb a sufficient amount in their blood streams. And the preliminary typing of pneumococci for their appropriate serums still takes valuable time in pneumonia cases. But Dr. Perrin Hamilton Long of Johns Hopkins, first physician in the U. S. to test sulfanilamide, is already working with Dr. Eli Kennedy Marshall, who has synthesized a sodium salt of sulfapyridine, which will be injected directly into the veins and may make serums unnecessary...