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...works once and forever. He knows nothing, utterly nothing of art. He is an offense in the sight of Heaven; his sloppy writing emanates from the vaporings of a tawdry, baudy, second-rate mind. Even a dog would not, in the Biblical phrase, return to such vomit...

Author: By Frederick DE W. pingree, | Title: Dreiser. A Study in Over-Estimation | 3/13/1926 | See Source »

...headache, dizziness; weakness, progressing to faintness; cold perspiration of the skin, and pallor of the face, with the oft-described greenish hue. The facial expression, which is one of great dejection and apathy, faithfully records the internal feelings. Waves of nausea finally get so strong that the desire to vomit is overwhelming, and after that act is consummated great relief is experienced. The vomiting is very often projectile in character, and there may be little or no nausea preceding. Objectively, one usually finds a strong, slow pulse with increased blood pressure in the early stages, and later a lowered blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seasickness | 2/15/1926 | See Source »

Force. Force is necessary for children who spit out their food or those who vomit at will. Give such a child a small amount of the food; if he vomits give him more; continue until he keeps the food down. When he learns that you know his trick, he will stop. Begin this method when the baby takes his first spoonful of cereal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How? . . . | 8/24/1925 | See Source »

...poor puffin! The poor gannet, poor razorbill, poor gull, guillemot, cor morant, tern and albatross! Ships that pass in the day or night vomit over the oceans the black waste of their oil-burning engines. Puffin, gannet, razor bill, gull, guillemot, cormorant, tern or albatross, dipping in their wake to gobble up some bilge morsel, floats flapping and crippled among the sliding sea hills, unable to rise for a cloying anointment that lays his feathers flat, seals his wings. He wearies, starves, sickens, dies, is flung ashore by the tides to testify in flyblown silence to the tyranny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ornithic Atrocities | 6/15/1925 | See Source »

Ships that vomit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: Jun. 15, 1925 | 6/15/1925 | See Source »

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