Word: stomache
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...grants from several learned societies, the Research Council on Problems of Alcohol, under the leadership of Dr. Winfred Overholser of Washington's St. Elizabeth's Hospital, set projects stirring in a half-dozen U. S. universities. Members tackled such problems as the Drunkard's liver, stomach, love for his mother...
...thickly populated with individualists. Several months ago, a Londoner named J. R. B. Branson wrote to the Times, suggesting that it would be a good idea for Britishers to learn to eat fresh green grass. Mr. Walter Elliott, the British Minister of Health, was not amused. The human stomach, said he stiffly, cannot digest grass...
When Mr. Branson, a vegetarian, first sampled grass, he had a little trouble with his stomach. A merely temporary obstacle. "I passed down word by 'autosuggestion' to my body-building staff," wrote he, "that I wanted them to sample a new form of 'building material' . . . and I boldly 'steamed ahead.' " Beginning with a few choice blades at each meal, he gradually worked up to over five ounces of fodder a day, can now "fearlessly consume any type of meadow grass." He collects fresh mowings, washes them tenderly, sets them...
...Branson is now at the age of "67 off." He claims that grass eating has enhanced his "activity, vitality, enthusiasm and vigor," so that he cycles "100 miles a day without any exhaustion." But he warned his readers to go slow. To an inexperienced stomach, said he, grass brings "super-purgation...
...wild-goose chase after poetical wisdom-a chase that did not end before the goose was caught, cooked and eaten. How Yeats swallowed his bird-beak, bones and feathers-he has told in detail in his classic Autobiography. How the meal sat on his stomach is made plain in his motley, fearful, sometimes scabrous, more often superb Last Poems & Plays...